foresnaffle

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foresnaffle (third-person singular simple present foresnaffles, present participle foresnaffling, simple past and past participle foresnaffled)

(transitive, rare, obsolete) To restrain; prohibit.
- 1844, The Gentleman's Magazine, volumes 176-177, page 606:
  Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]

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withstrain, see Thesaurus:prohibit.