"foresnaffle" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: foresnaffles [present, singular, third-person], foresnaffling [participle, present], foresnaffled [participle, past], foresnaffled [past]
Etymology: From fore- + snaffle. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|fore|snaffle}} fore- + snaffle Head templates: {{en-verb}} foresnaffle (third-person singular simple present foresnaffles, present participle foresnaffling, simple past and past participle foresnaffled)
  1. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To restrain; prohibit. Tags: obsolete, rare, transitive Synonyms: withstrain, prohibit
    Sense id: en-foresnaffle-en-verb-1nwFHEkR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore-

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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 […]",
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