What is "snappers"

Usage examples of "snappers".

Henry Thompson and me tied up to a mangrove and baited us some snappers while we compared our lowdown on that posse.

Now he did a roaring trade in snappers and groupers cooked to order at outrageous fees, with a flourishing sideline in fresh fish sales to the neighborhood each morning.

All his usual enemies were there, however: sting-wings from the swamp, a multiplicity of flesh beetles, snappers, and various small carnivorous reptiles, together with fast-creepers and parasitic horrors too numerous to classify.

This was a constant chattering noise as made by armor-clad snappers, whose ferocity was legend.

No snappers dared approach the slow fire that even now drifted its long streamers of vapor into the air.

His weapon against so many snappers could only be fire, and if he could make fire in the tree and drop it down on them, he would stand a chance of gaining an escape route.

The panic among the snappers manifested itself in an untidy, angry exodus, which took them not from the island, as Bethschant had expected, but leaping and floundering out across the swamp tracts in the direction of the mainland.

Bethschant understood why the snappers were so numerous in an area which could not have supported them all.

From the island to the mainland there must be a slightly submerged causeway across which the snappers could gain access to the larger territory.

His final consolation was to pick up a couple of partly roasted snappers, whose cooking he then proceeded to complete.

The dry-shelled rustle of stricken snappers was a terrifying revelation of the nature of the trap into which he had walked.

The fish, the bass, the perch and the snappers, loitered near the passing boat, unafraid.

Fishing with a chicken on a steel cablethey must grow some damn big snappers in that canal.