sniggled

Variant of sniggle

intransitive verb sniggled, sniggling

to fish for eels by putting a baited hook into their hiding holes

Origin: < dial. snig, eel < ME snygge, young eel, prob. akin to snegge, snail, akin to Ger schnecke: for IE base see snail

transitive verb

to catch (eels) by this method
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