Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for removing a gorged hook from the mouth of a fish. It is pushed down along the line, and forces back the barbed point, thus enabling the hook to be withdrawn.
- noun In the manufacture of effervescing wine, the workman who temporarily removes the cork from a bottle of wine which has undergone secondary fermentation, thus allowing the yeasty sediment to be blown out of the neck of the bottle by the accumulated gas as it escapes.
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- noun fishing A device used to remove a
hook from themouth of afish
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Examples
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During the course of landing, admiring and releasing the first musky I actually got to the boat, I got excited and somehow lost the long-handled hook disgorger my dad had given me some forty-five years ago while we were pike fishing.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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During the course of landing, admiring and releasing the first musky I actually got to the boat, I got excited and somehow lost the long-handled hook disgorger my dad had given me some forty-five years ago while we were pike fishing.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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During the course of landing, admiring and releasing the first musky I actually got to the boat, I got excited and somehow lost the long-handled hook disgorger my dad had given me some forty-five years ago while we were pike fishing.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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We moved around the rest of the morning, catching hardhead catfish (which Willcox unhooked with a long disgorger, to avoid the venomous spines in its dorsal and pectoral fins) and even a young goliath grouper, or jewfish (a protected species).
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006
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During the course of landing, admiring and releasing the first musky I actually got to the boat, I got excited and somehow lost the long-handled hook disgorger my dad had given me some forty-five years ago while we were pike fishing.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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For an hour a barbel came to net every five minutes; and there was no chance of loss, as the fish simply gulped at the worms and went off with them at once, and the hook had to be removed sometimes with a disgorger.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior
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A disgorger does the business better than a pocket-knife;
The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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Yet neither disgorger, nor oilskins, nor camp-stove can be considered in the light of necessities, for the simple reason that the conditions of their use occur too infrequently to compensate for the pains of their carriage.
The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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"Little end's disgorger," said Josh; "t'other's to knock the congers down with."
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I say, now you shall catch another," said Josh sturdily, as he leaned over the side and washed disgorger, axe, and hook.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
ruzuzu commented on the word disgorger
"The workman who temporarily removes the cork from a bottle of wine which has undergone secondary fermentation, thus allowing the yeasty sediment to be blown out of the neck of the bottle by the accumulated gas as it escapes." --CD
April 18, 2011