snickled

English

Verb

snickled

1. simple past 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.