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2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War:
The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:
The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:
Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War:
Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.
bab in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
bab in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 41