[f. SNARL v.1]

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  1.  The action of snaring, entangling or twisting. Also attrib. in snarling-net.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 461/2. Snarynge, or snarlynge, illaqueacio.

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1601.  Dent, Pathw. Heaven, 83. This world is … a snarling net, wherein thousands are taken.

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1615.  Markham, Pleas. Prin., ii. (1635), 8. Twist your hayres … without eyther snarling, or gaping one from another.

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1853.  Ure, Dict. Arts (ed. 4), II. 831. Thus preventing a snarling or damage of the yarn.

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  2.  (See quot.) rare–1.

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1750.  W. Ellis, Mod. Husb., III. III. 88. Some [sheets] are made of the worst sort of hemp, called Snarlings.

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