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snaphance, snaphaunce Now Hist.|ˈsnæphɑːns, -æ-|
Forms: α. 6–7 snaphanse, 6–7, 9 snaphance (6 snapp-), 7 snaphanch; 6–7, 9 snap-hance; 7 snap hance, hans. β. 6–7 snap-haunse, 6–7, 9 snaphaunce; 7 snap-haunce, 7, 9 -haunch; 6 snap haunce.
[Of Continental origin, repr. Du. and Flem. snaphaan (in Kilian snap-haen), MLG. snaphân, LG. snapphân, G. schnapphahn († -han), f. snappen, schnappen snap v. + haan, hahn cock. It is not quite clear whether the sense is ‘snapping cock’ or ‘cock-snapper’ (i.e. cock-stealer). In English the second element may have been confused with the personal name Hans; but Heyne (in Grimm's Dict.) cites an early example of G. schnaphons.]
†1. An armed robber or marauder; a freebooter or highwayman; a desperate fellow or thief. Obs.
α1538Tonstall Serm. Palm Sunday (1539) D viij b, To make this realme a praye to al venturers, al spoylers, al snaphanses, all forlornehopes. 1541Paynell Catiline xxiii. 43 Thynkynge..that huge routes of snaphances and hopelostes, from all partes of Italy wolde resorte to hym. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 684 He therefore required the prince to rid the realme of those snaphances.
β1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark v. 37 Euen as thoughe a sorte of snaphaunses set all on mischiefe..would make this peticion. 1609R. Armin Maids More-Cl. (1880) 73 He that shall marry thee, is a matcht y'faith, To English rash, or to a Dutch snap-haunce.
2. An early form of flint-lock used in muskets and pistols (cf. 3); also, the hammer of this.
Freq. contrasted with firelock (= wheel-lock), but the distinction is not always observed.
α1588in Norfolk Archæol. (1847) I. 16 To Henry Radoe, smyth, for making one of the old pistolls with a snapphance. 1594Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i, These old huddles haue such strong purses with locks, when they shut them they go off like a snaphance. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xlviii. 157 A pistoll to which belong so many severall partes, as powder, stone, locke, snap-hanse [etc.]. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. iv, Daggs with fire lockes or Snaphances. 1680Harford tr. Gaya in Eng. Milit. Discipl. 22 Upon which, when one intends to fire, he puts down the Snaphaunce, which in stead of a Flint, ought to be provided with a true Mine-stone.
β1594Barwick Disc. Weapons 22 A Harquebuze with a snaphaunce. 1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 120 A pistoll which goes with a Snaphaunce. 1642Sir E. Harwood Advice D j, Whether their Peeces to bee with Fire⁓locks or Snaphaunces, is questionable.
†b. transf. A spring catch or fastening. Obs.
1603Dekker Wonderful Year Wks. (Grosart) I. 138 A leatherne pouch..that opened and shut with a Snap-hance. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 194 His heart goes with the same snaphance his purse doth. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 4 In a countryman's budget, shut up with Snaphance?
¶c. A spring trap. Obs.
1823Scott Quentin D. v, There are such traps and snap⁓haunches as may cost you a limb.
3. A musket, gun, etc., fitted with a lock of this kind, in use in the 16–17th centuries. Now Hist.
So Du. and Flem. snaphaan, G. † schnapphahnrohr.
α1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 47 [Not] to strike iust vpon the wheeles being firelockes, or vpon the hammers or steeles, if they be Snap-hances. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. xii. 93 Three hundred Muskets, Snaphances, and Firelockes. 1651in H. Cary Mem. Civ. War (1832) II. 289 We have left us in store but..two thousand and thirty muskets, whereof thirty snaphancies. 1860Motley Netherl. vi. I. 316 [He] had borne a snap-hance on his shoulder as a volunteer. 1882Standard 10 Feb. 5/3 The seafaring man with his snap-hance, his flint lock, or his steel lance was upon them.
βc1580J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeol. XXVIII. 139 Sir Peter..hade with hyme a case of excellente snaphaunses. 1591Garrard's Art Warre 129 If the horse men use firelocke peeces, or snap haunces. 1655Markham Hunger's Prevention 44 Tis better it be a fier locke or Snaphaunce then a cocke and tricker. 1656Blount Glossogr., Snaphaunse, a fire-lock, or Gun that strikes fire without the use of a match. 1821Scott Nigel xxvii, ‘Let me see those pistols.’ ‘Ye are not so unwise as to meddle with such snap-haunches?’ 1840Gresley Siege of Lichfield 287 The snaphaunce differed from the modern fire⁓lock, in the hammer not forming the covering for the pan.
fig.1608J. Day Law Trickes v. i, A parlous Girle; her wits a meere Snaphaunce, Goes with a fire locke.
†b. A soldier armed with this form of gun.
1645N. Drake 2nd Siege of Pontefract (Surtees) 47 Capt. Joshua Walker with..about 20 snaphanches went out through the howses.
†4. fig. Ready answer or argument. Obs.—1
1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 190 And old crabb'd Scotus..Pay'th me with snaphaunce, quick distinction.
†5. A woman of low character. Obs.—1
a1625Fletcher Women Pleased iii. ii, 'Faith wholsome women will but spoil ye too, For you are so us'd to snap⁓haunces.
6. Attrib., as snaphance bag, snaphance hate, snaphance lock, snaphance musket, snaphance pistol, snaphance satirist.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 77 It is your dooing..that these stal-fed cormorants..must bung vp all the welth of the Land in their snap-haunce bags. 1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 65 The sharp tart veriuice of his snap⁓haunce hate. 1598Marston Pygmal. Sat. ii. Wks. 1856 III. 217, I, that even now lisp'd like an amorist, Am turn'd into a snaphaunce Satyrist. 1643in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. IV. 67 The hundred Snaphance muskets and..other small things. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xviii. (Roxb.) 135/1 A snaphaunch Lock is the generall name for all fire Locks. 1898Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Mar. 107 The President exhibited a snaphaunce pistol of the year 1619. |