snickled

English

Verb

snickled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of snickle

Adjective

snickled (not comparable)

  1. (of a rope) Tied into a noose using a slip knot.
    • 1995, Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, →ISBN, page 3-166:
      If a wire or chain sling is hooked back on itself, or secured by a choke hitch, ie by reeving one end of the sling through the other, it is said to be snickled.
  2. snared.
    • 2007, John Waddington-Feather, Ira and the Cycling Club Lion and Other Short Stories, →ISBN, page 52:
      Take the time when Billy Jackson, Squire Ferris's gamekeeper saw Ira on his way home from the moors and guessed he had some snickled hares in his knapsack.
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