"small", the verb

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Aug 24 00:34:29 UTC 2010


For the transitive use of "small", the verb, one quotation in the OED is:
      1962 'K. ORVIS' Damned & Destroyed xiv. 95 Welch smalled his
hands against his desk.

I can't visualize this.  What did Welch do?

Joel

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