4 entries under this word
v. i. [imp. & p. p. SNARLED; p. pr. & vb. n. SNARLING.] [From snar, q. v.]
Sense 1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
An angry cur Snarls while he feeds. Dryden.
Sense 2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude, murmuring terms.
It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden.
v. t. [From snare, v. t.]
This was their question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer.
Sense 1. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, which it is difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
Sense 2. A contention or quarrel. [Prov. Eng. Colloq. U. S.]
To raise or form hollow work in, as sheet metal, such as narrow vases, by the repercussion of an elastic tool or snarling-iron when struck by a hammer.