Angling. A device consisting of three or four hooks connected in a special manner.

Angling. A snap-hook or snap-rod. Obsolete.

Angling. A spring hook. Obsolete. rare.

A contrivance for catching fish: = jig, n.1 6c. Also, in ice-fishing (Canadian).

A snap-hook.

An implement used in illegal fishing, being a ‘stroke-haul’ (stroke-haul n. at stroke, n.1 compounds 3) fastened to a line reaching across a river…

an apparatus used for illegal capture of fish, formed of three hooks joined back to back, and weighted with lead.

Angling. A set of three hooks fastened together so that their barbs are at the angular points of a triangle.

Angling. A fish hook having several baited points, typically made by joining several hooks by their shanks; a gang hook (cf. gang hook n. at…

a type of artificial fishing fly; cf. sense A. 6.

Fishing. A device used for catching cod (see quot. 1883). Now historical.

a fish-hook fitted with a spring snap, a snap-hook.

a fish-hook consisting of three single hooks fastened back to back.

Angling. = treble hook n. at treble, adj. adv.compounds 1d.