snout, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

snout n.¹

[play on SE hogshead, i.e. a ‘pig’s nose’]

(UK Und.) a hogshead.

1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: snout, a Hogshead.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.