They noticed a great gaping wound as if done by a sword-cut on his snout.
Protected by no bony structure the snout of the monster was amputated.
They only allow the end of the snout, or at most the head, to appear.
He had his snout thrust out, and was "sniffing" at a great rate.
Pterygium: a lateral expansion of the snout of some Coleoptera.
It has a small head, the snout sharpened and bent slightly downwards.
One man, a butcher, was pulling on a rope which was tied around a porker's snout.
With the breeze biting her weather bow, I'll hold her snout into it.
The nostrils are on the upper part of the snout, through which it blows like a whale.
The peccary, having its snout tied up, was unable to squeak.
early 13c., "trunk or projecting nose of an animal," from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute "snout," from Proto-Germanic *snut- (cf. German Schnauze, Norwegian snut, Danish snude "snout"), which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose, imitative of a sudden drawing of breath (cf. Old English gesnot "nasal mucus;" German schnauben "pant, puff, snort" (Austrian dialect), schnaufen "breathe heavily, pant," Schnupfen "cold in the head"). Of other animals and (contemptuously) of humans from c.1300.
