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dapping, vbl. n.|ˈdæpɪŋ|
[f. dap v. + -ing1.]
Fishing by a method in which the bait is allowed to dip or bob lightly on the water. So ˈdapper, one who daps; dap n.3, the bait used in dapping; ˈdapped ppl. a., dipped.
1799E. Smith Laboratory II. 272 The few which you may..take, by dipping or dapping, will scarcely be eatable. 1867F. Francis Angling (1876) 263 Daping is in some places called ‘shade-fishing’. 1908Westm. Gaz. 13 June 11/3 Heavy trout being captured with the natural insect on ‘dapping’ tackle. 1920Glasgow Herald 17 July 4 A position from which he can lower his ‘dap’ on to the water without drawing the fishes' attention. Ibid., The floating imitation of the dry-fly fisher or the dapper's living lure. 1928Daily Express 28 July 4/6 The patient ‘dapper’, who thrusts his rod between the branches of over-hanging foliage and dangles a blue-bottle temptingly at the extremity of a 3x cast. 1933‘R. Crompton’ William—the Rebel viii. 163 His father..needed all his rods—either for ‘dapping’ or ‘trolling’ or ‘casting’. 1960Times 3 Dec. 9/4 It also rises freely in the daytime to a dapped grasshopper. 1967Daily Mail 8 July 6/6, I am a beautiful dapper: My daddy-longlegs skimmed the surface of the lake like a corps de ballet. Ibid., Levin, though he lacks the light touch needed for dapping, does..cast as to the manner born. |