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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