SNIGGER
Snig"ger, v. i.
Defn: See Snicker. Thackeray.
SNIGGER
Snig"ger, n.
Defn: See Snicker. Dickens.
SNIGGLE
Snig"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniggling().]
Etym: [See Snig a kind of eel.]
Defn: To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.
SNIGGLE
Snig"gle, v. t.
Defn: To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.
Beau & Fl.
SNIP
Snip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] Etym:
[D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
Defn: To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.