Meaning & use
Snig
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To drag or haul felled logs, especially with a chain or cable, from where they were cut to a collection point.
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The loggers used a tractor to snig the timber down to the mill road.
In Australia, a "snig track" is the path cleared for hauling felled logs.
A note on using this word
Chiefly used in British and Australian forestry; in some regional English dialects the same word instead names a young eel.
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2. noun
A young eel.
Fishermen along the river sometimes catch snig for bait.
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