Now dial. Also 9 snikkle. [Cf. next.] A snare or gin; a noose.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 30 (1713), I. 197. This was a way of Man-catching which our Friend Hick ne’er thought on, for a Man to run his own Head into the Snickle.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 104/1. For Pike [fishing],… Snap, Gorge, Snare or Snickle.
1819. in Hatfield, Hist. Notices Doncaster (1866), I. 71. Thou hast got a gun this morning, I see, and a pocketful of snickles.
1828. Heber, Jrnl., I. 173. The capture of a very beautiful iguana;… one of the boatmen caught it in a snickle.
1862–. in dial. glossaries, etc. (Yorks., Nhp., Leic.).
1902. Cutcliffe Hyne, Thompson’s Progress, 183. A fine cock pheasant with two fat raisins in its beak and a wire snickle tightly round its neck.
