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snap-work
Also snapwork.
[f. snap-.]
†1. Sc. A firelock. Obs.
1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlvii. 53 Snapwark, adew, fra dagmen dow nocht stand. 1676Row Contin. Blair's Autobiog. xi. (1848) 298, 400 men with bows and long Snap works. a1689W. Cleland Poems (1697) 12 (Jam.), Right well mounted of their gear:—With durk, and snap-work, and snuff-mill. Ibid. 34 Some with snapwarks, some with bowes.
attrib.1653Urquhart Rabelais i. lv, The buts and marks for shooting with a snap work-gun [Fr. l'arquebuse].
2. Snap-shot photography.
1889Photogr. News XXXIII. 266/2 A very necessary thing in quick snapwork in the streets. |