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sniggling, vbl. n.|ˈsnɪglɪŋ|
[? Related to snig n.1]
1. The action or practice of fishing for eels by means of a baited hook or needle thrust into their holes or haunts.
1661Walton Angler xiii. (ed. 3) 193 Because you..know not what snigling is, I will now teach it to you..: take a strong small hook tied to a strong line.., and then into one of these holes,..or any place where you think an Eele may hide or shelter her self, there with the help of a short stick put in your Bait. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 260 Eels commonly abscond themselves under stones.., and under Timber, Planks, or such-like.., where you may take them by this way of Snigling. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling i. xl. 85 Snigling or Brogling for Eels is another remarkable Method of taking them. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 55 There are two ways to take them in the day time called sniggling and bobbing. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports 258 Sniggling is another mode of taking eels,..and the apparatus consists in a strong needle [etc.]. 1885Sat. Rev. 21 Nov. 673/1 ‘Sniggling’..is one of the most favourite ways of catching eels.
attrib.1688Holme Armoury iii. 103/1 A Snigleing, or Prokeing Stick, is a forked stick, and a short long Line with a Needle Bated with a Lob Worm. It is only for Eels in their holes. 1867F. Francis Angling iii. (1880) 91 A sniggling stick or rod.
2. In salmon-fishing (see quots.).
1890Scottish Leader 20 Nov. 5 ‘Sniggling,’ means fishing with rod and line and artificial fly, but the hook is made to sink in the water where fish are supposed to be, and the rod so jerked that they are hooked and quickly landed. 1891Ibid. 13 Nov. 4 ‘Sniggling’..is a mode of fishing by which the hook takes the fish, and not the fish the hook. |