Definition of "snooding" []

• Present participle of snood. (verb)

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• "And while she is snooding up her ruffled locks, she saith unto her,"
• "To the eyelet is attached the 'sid' -- _i. e._, two or three fathoms of fine snooding; -- to the sid a length of gut on which half an inch ofclay pipe-stem is threaded, and to the gut a rather large hook."
• "The latter opened his big knife, and as a great eel about three feet long was drawn over the side they did not trouble to extract the hook which was swallowed right down; but Josh cut the string of the snooding close to the living creature's jaws, and let it drop in the boat, about which it began to travel serpent-fashion to Dick's great discomfort."