minikin

• 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. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
• 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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