| 单词 |
sproat |
| 释义 |
sproat Angling.|sprəʊt| [f. the name of the inventor, W. H. Sproat of Ambleside.] sproatbend (hook), sproat hook, a light fish-hook with a wide and slightly flattened bend, short front, and point set well inwards.
[1866W. H. Sproat in Field 1 Dec., I send..salmon hooks made by Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, of Kendal. They have affixed my name to them.] 1871‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports (ed. 9) i. v. 276 The sproat-bend, which is intermediate between the round-bend and the Limerick, has also come a good deal into use of late for trout. 1883Cent. Mag. July 378/1 He attached a sproat hook, No. 1½, with a gut snell eight inches long. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 20 Thirty or forty yards of braided silk or linen line, and a Sproat-bend hook. |

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