dapping

• Looks like the feed has learned to respect the D. Hell who wouldn't respect those threads, well how about me for one ... if your gonna call a show the "dapper" edition then you gotta hold that dapper voice for then whole dapping show. seriously? brad pitt? —  Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day.
• It is there described how the Macedonians captured a certain spotted fish in the river Astraeus by means of a lure composed of coloured wool and feathers, which was presumably used in the manner now known as "dapping." —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• In Ireland "dapping" with the green drake or the daddy-longlegs is practised from boats on most of the big loughs. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• A few anglers still practise the old style of dapping or "dibbling" after the manner advised by Izaak Walton. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• It is only in the valley of remembrance that its current still flows like liquid air; and only in that country that you can still see the famous men who came and went along the banks of the Lyocoming when the boy was there There was Collins, who was a wondrous adept at "daping, dapping, or dibbling" with a grasshopper, and who once brought in a string of trout which he laid out head to tail on the grass before the house in a line of beauty forty-seven feet long. —  Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness

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