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Snow sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Snow sb.2 Also 7–8 snaw. [ad. Du. snauw, snaauw, or LG. snau (hence Da. and Sw. snau, G. schnau, schnaue, and F. senau), of doubtful origin.] A small sailing-vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the mainmast; formerly employed as a warship.

1   α.  1676.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1079/3. Ostend, March 29. On the 25 instant,… appeared off of this Harbour … two Snaws of four Guns each.

2 1695.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 441. 28 sail of French ships,… and among them 6 or 8 snaws of 8 or 10 guns each. Ibid. (1710), VI. 532. A French snaw, with 33 men and 4 guns.

3   β.  1721.  S. Sewall, Diary, 14 April. A Letter from Capt. Tuthill,… giving me an account of the Arrival of the Snow Anna.

4 1763.  Sir S. T. Janssen, Smuggling Laid Open, 263. A Snow of 120 Tons, and 48 Men,… Mounting 12 Carriage Guns, besides Swivels.

5 1784.  Colman, Prose on Sev. Occas. (1787), III. 255. Majestick navies in her harbours ride, Skiffs, snows, and frigates anchor by their side.

6 1810.  Crabbe, Borough, i. 52. Far other craft our prouder river shows, Hoys, pinks and sloops; brigs, brigantines and snows.

7 1846.  A. Young, Naut. Dict., 50. A Brig bends her boom-sail (or … trysail) to the mainmast, while a Snow bends it to a trysail mast: in other respects these two vessels are alike.

8 1881.  W. Clark Russell, Ocean Free-Lance, II. iv. 193. The whole ocean … was covered by … brigs, snows, tartans, schooners, pinks.

9   attrib. and Comb.  1790.  Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., II. 183. The James & Thomas tender … was attacked by a large snow privateer.

10 1860.  Merc. Mar. Mag., VII. 148. She was a two-masted vessel,… and snow-rigged.

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