[f. SNIGGLE v.1] A baited hook or other device used in sniggling for eels, etc.
1837. Hood, Ode to Dr. Hahnemann, iii. When Anhalt-Coethen babies wriggle, Like eels just caught by sniggle.
1848. [W. F. Campbell], Life in Normandy (1863), I. 183. There may be one [lobster there] now. I will make the girl try, if she has brought her sniggle with her. Ibid., 184. He saw that she had a sniggle stick stuck into the string of her petticoat.