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Definition of Skeggers
1. skegger [n] - See also: skegger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeggers
Literary usage of Skeggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"You have been lucky in hooking the skeggers to-day ; if you continue as you have
... skeggers ! Why surely you do not call those fine trouts, of from two to ..."
2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1834)
"You have been lucky in hooking the skeggers to-day; if you continue as you have
... skeggers! Why surely you do not call those fine trouts, of from two to ..."
3. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"And it is noted, that those little salmons called skeggers, which abound in many
rivers ... skeggers are smolts, the one-year-old produce of healthy, ..."
4. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"And it is noted, that those little salmons called skeggers, which abound in many
rivers ... skeggers are smolts, the one-year-old, produce of healthy, ..."
5. Scenes and Recollections of Fly-fishing in Northumberland, Cumberland, and by William Andrew Chatto (1834)
"You have been lucky in hooking the skeggers to-day; if you continue as you have
... skeggers! Why surely you do not call those fine trouts, of from two to ..."
6. The Salmon by Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, Claud Douglas Pennant, Alexander Innes Shand (1898)
"I am inclined to think from the context that the author means to include sea-trout
with smolts under the general designation of skeggers, as he makes no ..."
7. The Salmon by Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, Claud Douglas Pennant, Alexander Innes Shand (1898)
"I am inclined to think from the context that the author means to include sea-trout
with smolts under the general designation of skeggers, as he makes no ..."
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