"snaphance" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Dutch snaphaan (“a gun”), originally, the snapping cock of a gun. See snap and hen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snaphances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snaphance (plural snaphances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 6 9 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 11 23 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 6 7 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 5 5 6",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 19 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Firearms",
          "orig": "en:Firearms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spring lock for discharging a firearm."
      ],
      "id": "en-snaphance-en-noun-WH5FmsvB",
      "links": [
        [
          "spring",
          "spring"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The firearm to which it is attached."
      ],
      "id": "en-snaphance-en-noun-Hg3aauNU",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              74
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1539 April 9, Cuthbert Tunstall, A Sermon of Cuthbert Tonstall, Bishop of Durham, Preached on Palm Sunday, 1539, before King Henry VIII. […], London: […] [J. Compton, […]] for T[homas] Rodd, […], published 1823, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[T]o make this realme a praye to al venturers, al ſpoylers, all ſnaphanſes, all forlornehopes, all cormerauntes, all reuenours of the worlde, that wyll inuade this realme, is to ſaye, thou poſſeſſyoner of any landes of this realme, of what degree ſo euer thou be, fro the higheſt to the loweſt, ſhalte be ſlayne and deſtroyed, and thy landes taken frome the by thoſe that wyl haue al for them ſelfes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trifling or second-rate thing or person."
      ],
      "id": "en-snaphance-en-noun-JuRW-KRq",
      "links": [
        [
          "trifling",
          "trifling"
        ],
        [
          "second-rate",
          "second-rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A trifling or second-rate thing or person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A snappish retort."
      ],
      "id": "en-snaphance-en-noun-UljkdSal",
      "links": [
        [
          "snappish",
          "snappish"
        ],
        [
          "retort",
          "retort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A snappish retort."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snaphance"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Firearms"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Dutch snaphaan (“a gun”), originally, the snapping cock of a gun. See snap and hen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snaphances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snaphance (plural snaphances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A spring lock for discharging a firearm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spring",
          "spring"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The firearm to which it is attached."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              74
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1539 April 9, Cuthbert Tunstall, A Sermon of Cuthbert Tonstall, Bishop of Durham, Preached on Palm Sunday, 1539, before King Henry VIII. […], London: […] [J. Compton, […]] for T[homas] Rodd, […], published 1823, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[T]o make this realme a praye to al venturers, al ſpoylers, all ſnaphanſes, all forlornehopes, all cormerauntes, all reuenours of the worlde, that wyll inuade this realme, is to ſaye, thou poſſeſſyoner of any landes of this realme, of what degree ſo euer thou be, fro the higheſt to the loweſt, ſhalte be ſlayne and deſtroyed, and thy landes taken frome the by thoſe that wyl haue al for them ſelfes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trifling or second-rate thing or person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trifling",
          "trifling"
        ],
        [
          "second-rate",
          "second-rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A trifling or second-rate thing or person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A snappish retort."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snappish",
          "snappish"
        ],
        [
          "retort",
          "retort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A snappish retort."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "snaphance"
}