snappering

Verb

snapper (third-person singular simple present snappers, present participle snappering, simple past and past participle snappered)

1. To stumble, to trip.
2. (figuratively) To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally.
   • A curate in specyall
     To snappar and to fall
     Into this opyn crymec. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 141–143

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