Lexicographical Neighbors of Ripecks
Literary usage of Ripecks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1877)
"... and a decade to fix it to two ripecks, as you see a Thames fisherman do with
such apparent ease—and you would not do it. I give you this fair time for ..."
2. Notes on Fish and Fishing by John Jackson Manley (1881)
"... playing fields to Windsor Weir, and a decade to fix it to two ripecks, as you
see a Thames fisherman do with such apparent ease—and you would not do it. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... but large numbers of roach are caught from punts moored across the stream by
means of poles called ripecks, the angler lowering the line over the side ..."
4. Fishing by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, William Senior, Robert Bright Marston, John Popkin Traherne, Henry Ralph Francis, H. S. Hall, Thomas Andrews, William Alleyne Cecil Exeter, George Christopher Davies (1885)
"... the window or over the balcony — a scamper to the boathouse, a vigorous shove
or two with the punt pole, and in five minutes the ripecks are fast, ..."
5. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
"... and in five minutes the ripecks are fast, and everything snug in the very
perfection of a " pitch" —not that one out there over the shallows, ..."
6. Our River [the Thames] by George Dunlop Leslie (1881)
"A couple of ripecks are also necessary for mooring the punt; but I seldom take
these with me, unless I purpose sketching, as they take up room. ..."
7. Fishing by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1893)
"... and in five minutes the ripecks are fast, and everything ready in the very
perfection of a " pitch " —not that one out there over the shallows, ..."
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