An entanglement, as a twisted thread; a quarrel; an angry contest. Provincial in England, and colloquial in the United States.--Worcester.
Her mother gets her to pick a snarl out of the yarn she is winding.--Margaret, p. 160.
This gallant officer and estimable man [Sir John Harvey] has been transferred from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, where Lord Falkland had got into a snarl.--Com. Adv., April 1, 1846.
The members of the House of Representatives got themselves into a most admirable snarl on Saturday afternoon, by their proceedings in reference to the recent case of resistance to the serving of a habeas corpus writ.--Boston Traveller, Feb. 12.
Men, you have all got into a sort of snarl, as the militia Captain said to his men, when he could not keep them in line.--Georgia Scenes, p. 149.