snap-work
Also snapwork.
[f. snap-.]
† 1. Sc. A firelock. Obs.
| 1568 Satir. Poems Reform. xlvii. 53 Snapwark, adew, fra dagmen dow nocht stand. 1676 Row Contin. Blair's Autobiog. xi. (1848) 298, 400 men with bows and long Snap works. a 1689 W. 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. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. lv, The buts and marks for shooting with a snap work-gun [Fr. l'arquebuse]. |
2. Snap-shot photography.
| 1889 Photogr. News XXXIII. 266/2 A very necessary thing in quick snapwork in the streets. |