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flicker n A lead weight forming part of a hook, used when fishing with a
hand-line for cod near the surface of the water; DAPPER. FLOAT n.
[1856] 1975 WHITELEY 148 Float line [refers] to fishing with a
'flicker'—that is, a single hook around which a small amount of lead has been run.
1937 Seafisheries of Nfld 32 The Flicker ... is the same as the Float, with a
piece of lead between one and two ounces in weight, about 18 inches from the hook. T
272/3-662 [You] catch 'em on floats--some people calls 'em flickers. You just
put the caplin onto that an' throw I 'em out an' the fish take hold to it. 1975 BUTLER 57
A flicker was a small piece of lead weighing half a pound with one hook embedded in the
lead. A line was attached to the other end of the lead. In the caplin scull fishermen
would bait the hook with caplin and throw it out on the water. When a fish took the bait,
the fisherman would flick the fish on board the boat. Hence the name flicker.
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