To steal, to pickpocket.
1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lkgOmzNd3tQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22snavel%22|%22snavels%22|%22snavelling%22|%22snavelled%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&sou…
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(Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.
: Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it!”
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