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1 1981 PADDOCK 35 "Pronging Fish on the Stage Head": Stab, heave, and toss/In an ecstasy of motion,/In a surfeit of slub. 1987 Evening Telegram 21 Mar, p. 5 And standing up to my backside in slub and blood and guts, I absolutely loved [that first meal of fishermen's brewis, served on the fishing stage].
2 1924 Deep Sea Fishers xxi (4), 138 Slub--Coarse seaweed, or wrack, which gums up the fishing nets. 1985 Gazette 26 July, p. 3 Very often 'slub' conditions between April and June in Newfoundland inshore waters aggravate herring, salmon and cod gillnet fishermen... The slime which coats nets, traps, trawls and other fishing gear is produced by a small tadpole-shaped animal of the genus Oikopleura. 1987 FELT 1 'Slub' is a thick algae-like growth which sometimes clings to the nets and impairs their catching ability.
