sniggle

To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their hiding places.

To catch (an eel) in this manner.

A guttural, nasal, or granting laugh; a snicker: used in contempt.

To fish for eels by thrusting bait into their lurking-places: a method chiefly English.

To catch, as an eel, by pushing the bait into the hole where the eel is; hence, figuratively, to catch; snare; entrap.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places.

To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare.

To catch an eel by thrusting a baited hook into its den.

Alternate spelling and pronunciation of snicker (corruption with giggle.) To chortle or chuckle.

To steal something of little value; diminutive corruption of snag + diminutive suffix.