1634. Th’ Frost fish and the Smelt.—W. Wood, ‘New Eng. Prosp.’ (1865), p. 36. (N.E.D.)
1792. Frost-fish are taken with wooden tongs, and black eels in cylindrical baskets, with a hole, resembling mouse traps made of wire.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 90.
