1849 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 12 Spans and snops. This is a very simple game; one player first shoots his marble, the second then endeavours to strike or snop it, or otherwise to shoot his own within a span of it.

1881 R. Jefferies Wood Magic II. iv. 110 His body..rebounded with a snop, and he fell disabled and insensible to the earth.

1849 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 12 Spans and snops. This is a very simple game; one player first shoots his marble, the second then endeavours to strike or snop it, or otherwise to shoot his own within a span of it.

1882 R. Jefferies Bevis I. x I see a man do that once... A' had a gate-hinge snopping um.

a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 141 To stand there swinging that heavy bit of wood all day meant meat and drink..for themselves and families..: but only a few of them could get barns to snop away in.