Meaning of snavel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To steal, to pickpocket.
2. To snatch.
   Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

“1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press⟳, page 59, Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it! […] ””

“Billy May said he made his first electric guitars after talking to an American named Paul Bigsley, who claimed to be the inventor of the Tremolo Lever, which idea, according to Billy, was “snavelled” by Fender and improved upon.”

“Paul tried to snavel Dan′s chair from under him.”

“1915, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 472, This was in his constituency, and he believed the idea was to go straight through the reserve⟳ eventually — that if they snavelled this piece now they would snavel more of this playground a little later on, and completely spoil⟳ the reserve⟳.”

“These primitive merchants lost the Booradeela Timber Reserve⟳ when it was snavelled up even before the Depression by the Kincomba Building Combine⟳ with a wheedled government contract.”

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