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Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
page 44 of 71 (61%)

On l. 165. (G.):--

"Sigh no more, ladies; ladies, sigh no more."

_Shakspeare's Much Ado_, ii. 3.

On l. 171. (G.):--

"Whatever makes _Heaven's forehead_ fine."

_Crashaw's Weeper_, st. 2.

J.F.M.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Depinges_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 20. p. 326.).--I have received
the following information upon this subject from Yarmouth. Herring
nets are usually made in four parts or widths,--one width, when they
are in actual use, being fastened above another. The whole is shot
overboard in very great lengths, and forms, as it were, a wall in
the sea, by which the boat rides as by an anchor. These widths are
technically called "_lints_" (Sax. lind?); the uppermost of them
(connected by short ropes with a row of corks) being also called the
"_hoddy_" (Sax. hod?), and the lowest, for an obvious reason, the
"_deepying_" or "_depynges_," and sometimes "_angles_."

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