Shipbuilding. [Cf. SNYING vbl. sb.] (See quots. 1846 and 1875.)
a. 1711. W. Sutherland, Ship-build. Assist., 54. In working up a round Buttock of a Ship, the lower Edge of the Planks will have a sudden Sny aft.
1846. A. Young, Naut. Dict., 288. In shipbuilding, a plank is said to have sny, when its edge has an upward curve.
b. c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 149. The great sny occasioned in full bows or buttocks is only to be prevented by introducing steelers.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2232/1. Sny.… The trend of the lines of a ship upward from amidship toward the bow and the stern.
