Sproat is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 192 anagrams from letters in sproat (aoprst).
1865-70; named after W. H. Sproat, 19th-century English angler
Besides this refutation of sproat's shameful trick there were many others.
The short barb, with cutting edges, of the sproat hook renders it superior to the Virginia.
Hooks come in a great variety of shapes and models but there are none better than the standard "sproat."
But, as Mr. sproat suggests, this might have reference to Meares's settlement.
I used the sproat bend, No. 7-0, but 5-0 would be large enough for the average-sized cero.
A moonless night soon closed around the boat, and in the morning we were at sproat's Landing, a place two months old.
In sproat's Landing we saw the nucleus of a railroad terminal point.
I prefer the sproat or O'Shaughnessy to either, with gut loop at the head of the fly.
Our officers replied, 'Mr sproat, we are the best manned out of the port of Philadelphia.'
Then the fly comes limply home and nothing remains of the sproat hook but the shank.
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