Meaning of snift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A moment; a while.
   UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
2. A deliberate release of pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine, or bottling equipment.
3. A light dusting, as of snow.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable

Examples

“An' if thou'll make a shift effort To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!”

“An ' if thou'll make a shift To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!””

“Good Lorjus, Meary ! theawrt so hasty; so I clum th' steeigh in o snift, shoavt th' awts eawt, an smackt me riddle oth' hoyle.”

“He frowned, and sent snifts of snow and symptoms of rain that dampened the ardor of the golf contingent and made things murky and dreary outside.”

“Mingled labdanum w'fine snift of myrrh, to enhaunt her nautical J-chamois”

“The proper use of the air cock is, that after the engine is got steadily to work, and the snift emits no more than it should do, that the air cock should be opened as much as it can be to let the engine come fairly in, that is, for the piston to come fully down, and if it goes out in preference to that of coming in, the better.”

“The whole of the ‘snift’ (which is the waste in bottling aerated waters) is saved by this machine.”

“the face and edge respectively of this cam actuate the snift and filling valves c and d.”

“If we consider a bottle with a gas headspace of 5% of the bottle volume, on the first snift the gas loss would be 5% of the bottle volume. On the second snift we would lose a further 5%.”

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