A hasty repast; a snack. Scottish.--Jamieson.
Our kind host and hostess would not go before taking a snatch, as they called it; which was in truth a very good dinner.--Boswell's Journal.
The most relishing snatch of slumber out of bed, is the one which a tired person takes, before he retires for the night, while lingering in his sitting-room.--Leigh Hunt, Indicator, ch. 21.