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Corking, minikin, and all description of pins, were obliged to be made in the regular way; and cows even departed this world without the honour of the human immolations formerly considered the necessary sacrifice for the loss of their inestimable lives.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete
Pepys' "minikin" was probably cat-gut Land-locked Salmon_.--The land-locked salmon (_Salmo salar sebago_) of Canada and the lakes of Maine is, as its name implies, now regarded by scientists as merely a land-locked form of the salmon.— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
This day, Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.— Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over— Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

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