foresnaffle

verb

verb

Etymology From fore- + snaffle.

Obsolete, Rare To restrain; prohibit.

Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]1844, The Gentleman's Magazine, volumes 176-177, page 606:

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