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Later on I showed them a 27-stranded American cotton line 100 fathoms long, with a 4-inch hook, curved in the shank, as thick as a pencil, and "eyed" for a twisted wire snooding.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis

Lines of strong cord with hooks bound up the snooding with brass wire were on their winders.

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

You see we want strong lines and snooding out here.”

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

Give Josh a shilling to make himself a new gaff, and buy a shilling’s worth of snooding and hooks for yourself.

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.

Then anchor me there Beyond the beckoning poplars, where The larch is snooding her flowery hair With wreaths of morning shadow.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss