sud line n also sed, sid*, sud [phonetics unavailable]. Cp Dorset County Record Office, 1799 Gundry inventory (D203/A6) Long Seds ... Short [Seds] WILCOCKS 135 'snood, or sid' s w cties; EDD zid 'bit of silk attached to a hook' D; Cent sed2 (Maine).
1 A grade of line used for attaching hooks to a trawl-line, and for various other purposes.
1760 CO 194:15 To 3 dozen Fishing Lines @ 6ce each... To 10 [dozen] Suad [Lines] @ 10ce. 1937 DEVINE 43 Sed ... a fine line used with smaller fish hooks, especially for catching squid, P 158-63 As thin as a sud line. T 203/6-65 You'll take up the linnet [of the cast-net] below the horn, and take hold to your suds, or threads, your lines, and you'll haul it right in over the gunwale. P 126-67 The sid of a lobster pot. M 68-26 A sud line is roughly in. in diameter. There were two kinds of sud lines sold and used at Hr Buffett—the four-pound sud and the five-pound sud. The line came in coils called 'hanks,' and one hank was thirty fathoms long. A four-pound sud could hold a weight of about twenty pounds; a five-pound sud could hold about twenty-five to thirty pounds. It was generally used as jigger line or for trawls. 1972 Evening Telegram 18 May, p. 3 [The door latch] was made of wood... If you were inside ... you pulled on a piece of sud line coming in through two small holes in the door and tied to the latch outside.
2 In trawl-fishing, one of the short lines from which single hooks are suspended at intervals from the trawl-line; snood; cp GANGEING.
1937 Seafisheries of Nfld 32 These hooks are fastened to the heavy [trawl] line by short lines about three feet long, called 'seds,' and are spaced about three or four feet apart. P 148-59 A few new seds hung over the coil. T 50/2-64 The suds are so far apart, but when they comes together, this one comes this way, and this one goes this way—they haven't got to meet. They had to be far enough apart so that they wouldn't meet. T 203-65 Now this here, the lower end, they'd put what they calls a sud, a piece of line about so long. P 121-67 Each line of gear contains fifty suds. 1973 Evening Telegram 10 Oct, p. 3 What did they expect them to do? Stretch a sed line across from Bread and Cheese?
3 Comb sud knot: type of knot used to secure hook to the length of line suspended from a trawl (P 113-79).
