snying
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Verb
[edit]snying
- present participle and gerund of sny
- present participle and gerund of snie
- present participle and gerund of snye
Adjective
[edit]snying
- (obsolete, nautical) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 1841, Richard Henry Dana Jr., The Seaman's Friend
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snying”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)