Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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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. * * * * * 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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