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Quotation dates: 1830, 1883
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†PAPARAP, n. Also papparap. A device or kind of drag, consisting of three hooks lashed together and fastened to a weighted string, used in poaching to draw a line out of a river (Mry. 1911 Trans. Bnff. Field Club 109).Mry. 1830 Elgin Liter. Mag. 426:
[To] draw out another man's scantack, Wi' the prongs o' a stolen papparap.Mry. 1883 F. Sutherland Memories 173:
Wi' paparaps their scantacks hailin'.
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