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单词 snagger
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snaggern.

Etymology: < snag v.2 2, 4cPrevious versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnagger.
1. dialect. (See quot. 1847.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook
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hack1846
snagger1847
slasher1858
bush-hook1860
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. at Snag A snagger..is a simple bill-hook without the usual edge on the back.
2. Australian. A slow, inexpert, or poor sheep-shearer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer
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sheep-shearer1539
forcer1553
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snagger1887
boss of the board1896
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jingling Johnny1904
barrowman1940
ryebuck shearera1957
barrower1965
1887 Tibb's Popular Songbk. 11 I found a lot of snaggers Not a shearer in the mob.
a1914 Click go Shears in R. Ward Austral. Ballads (1964) 120 The ringer looks round and is beaten by a blow, And curses the snagger with the bare-bellied yeo.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 63 Snagger, a shearer who is learning the trade and handling less than fifty sheep a day.
1969 B. Hardy West of Darling 106 Since they were slow, inexpert, and rough in their performances, the poorest shearers in the shed were nicknamed ‘snaggers’.
1975 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 14 Sept. 6/6 The younger men who have taken the old ‘snaggers'’ places, stand up on ‘the board’..and shear along with the best of them.
3. North American. One who snags fish; one who catches fish illicitly.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using illicit methods
otterer1901
snagger1946
1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 17 Mar. b11/2 Alewives which have been snagged by the many ‘snaggers’ on the dam.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Oct. 36/3 Among this group were many snaggers, fish hogs using any means to trap the big fish. One man, armed only with a landing net, scooped away at fish in one pool.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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