[See def.] Snider rifle, a form of breech-loading rifle invented by Jacob Snider († 1866). Also ellipt. for this.
1864. Standard, 30 July, 3/4. The Mont Storm, the Cooper, and the Snider rifles, are all, however, worthy of notice.
1868. U.S. Rep. Munit. War, 32. The Snider rifle … has attracted perhaps as much attention as any breech-loader in Europe or America.
1876. Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict., 27/1. The Snider or converted Enfield rifle cartridge.
1890. Kipling, Soldiers Three (1891), 65. The good and virtuous people who hardly know a Martini from a Snider.
