snatch : Idioms & Phrases
Body snatching
- (
Law ), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.
Webster 1913
snatch block
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noun a pulley-block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope
WordNet
Snatch block
Definitions
(Naut.) ,a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
Webster 1913
snatch up
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verb to grasp hastily or eagerly
snap; snatch.
- Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone
