Reverse Dictionary: SNATCH

NOUNS
► ABREPTION a snatching away; complete separation → 1681 obs.
► CORREPTION a sudden snatching away, a seizure → 1659 obs.
► DAB a snatch or clutch → 1880 Sc.
► HANCH a voracious snap or snatch; an attempt to bite from behind → 1808-18 & N. Ireland
► NAB a snatch, a seizure; theft; profit which is the result of sharp dealing → 1903 Sc. (Bk.)
► RAPTION the fact of being snatched up → 1548 obs.
► SCRAMP a snatching; a hurried attempt → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCREED a quick movement; a snatch → 1805 Sc. obs.
► SCRIP a snatch → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TWITCH a sudden sharp pull or tug; a jerk, a pluck, a snatch → 1523
► YARK ► YERK ► YIRK the act of lashing out with the heels, as a horse; a kick; a sudden or abrupt movement, a jerk, a twitch, a snatch → 1581 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► SCRABBER who snatches, grabs, or takes by force → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ABRAID to wrench or pull out; to snatch; to withdraw; to draw a sword → c1000 obs.
► AFFERRE to take away, to remove; also, to snatch away, to seize and carry off → a1000 obs.
► BEREFT to snatch away a possession; to remove or take away by violence → c1320 obs.
► BONE to seize; to snatch; to steal → L18 sl.
► CAB to cheat, to pilfer; to snatch dishonestly or meanly → 1895 Sc. sl.
► CATCH AWAY to seize and take away; to snatch away → c1325
► CATCH OFF to snatch or take off → c1420 obs.
► CLAW to snatch, to appropriate → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► CRATCH to seize or snatch as with claws; to scrape up greedily; to grab → 1377
► DEBRAID to snatch down → 1388 obs.
► GLOM to grab, to snatch, to take; implies violence → 1912 US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► GRUMPHEY to snatch craftily → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HANCH to snatch, to snap at or bite with violent or noisy action of the jaws; said of large dogs, wild beasts, cannibals, or greedy men → a1400-50 now chiefly Sc.
► KEEP to seize, to lay hold of; to snatch, to take → c1000 obs.
► NAB to snatch, to steal, to seize → 1665 sl.
► NATCH to seize, to lay violent  hands on, to snatch away → 1736 Sc.
► NIB to snatch; to steal; to seize → M17 sl.
► NIBBLE UP to snatch with the fingers, to grab → 1863 Sc. 
► NIP to steal or snatch → c1560 sl.
► PRA-PRA to snatch, to steal → 20C W. Indies
► PULL to steal; to snatch; to cheat → 1821 sl.
► RAMP to snatch, to tear, to pluck; to pull suddenly or sharply → 1567 obs.
► RAP to seize or snatch for oneself; to take or get by snatching or stealing → 1564 obs.
► RAP AND REND to snatch and tear; to waste, destroy property → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAUNCH AND SCRAUNCH to snatch greedily; to grasp at → 19C  Eng. dial.
► SCRAB to grab, to snatch; to steal → 1890 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCRAMP to stretch forth the hands to grasp; to snatch at, to seize, to clutch → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAWL to snatch; to take anything abruptly or rudely → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRIP to snatch; to snatch at hastily or greedily → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SMUSS to grab, seize, snatch; to take by force → 1736
► SNAKE to take slyly or stealthily. to extract forcefully or abruptly, to snatch → 1833 Amer. dial.
► TIT to pull forcibly, to tug; to snatch → a1300 chiefly Sc.
► TO-BRAID to wrench apart, to pull to pieces; also, to tear or snatch away → c893 obs.
► YAFFLE to snatch; to take illicitly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YAP to snatch, to sweep or whip away → 1959 Sc.
► YARK ► YERK ► YIRK to jerk; to seize or pull forcibly; to snatch, to wrench, to force → 1811 Sc. & Eng. dial.