sniggling

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Then the nuns at the abbey hired us to catch eels — and we’ve been sniggling ever since.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

The device still lingers in France and in a few remote parts of England in the method of catching eels which is known as "sniggling."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various

Puts me in mind of sniggling for eels, and pushing a worm at the end of a willow-stick up an eel’s burrow in a muddy bank.

From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by Smith, W.T.

Anglers may see an analogy between these British negotiations with the Dutch and the tardy and tantalising sport of sniggling for eels.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

But, in my country, it is more usual to duck that official, and go on netting, sniggling, salmon-roeing, and destroying sport in the sacred name of Liberty.

From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew