Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cutting-shears for removing the cartilage from a pig's nose, to prevent the pig from rooting.
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Examples
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The snouter is a scissors-like device for clamping a ring in the pig's nose.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 John T. Schlebecker
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The one on the left is a "snouter" (Points = 10) and the other is a "leaning jowler"
Kruse Kronicle 2008
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At this moment the God of Grendels could have her for a snouter.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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Now one very confused little snouter, this time it tried to walk west, toward the trees.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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The things were closer now, and the snouter had ceased struggling.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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At first the snouter just stared at him, but then it came close, and then closer, and then she couldn't believe it, but the thing was eating out of his hand.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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In a sudden blur of motion something tore out of the woods and slammed into the snouter so fast that he didn't have time to think.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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A snouter, one of the pig-like things common in the lowlands and reasonably plentiful on the high plateaus.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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She brought the skeeter in for a closer look, and the snouter looked up, more alarmed by the whirring, flying thing in the sky than it ever was by Justin's presence.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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Cold snouter meat, turkey and turkey eggs, vegetables and heads of lettuce from Camelot.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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