Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pierce; prick.
- To fish for eels by troubling the water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To sniggle, or fish with a brog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect To
sniggle , orfish with abrog .
Etymologies
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Diminutive of English dialect brog to broggle. Compare brog (noun).
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reesetee commented on the word broggle
To fish, especially for eels, by thrusting a sharp stick with bait on it into holes in the riverbed.
October 3, 2007