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Shoot. I used this as my source:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=snells

Am I still top posting?


I did not need a source. The word was in common usage where I lived as a
boy. The main reason for snelling hooks, is the direct pull, and strength
which results. This only works with the correct knot. In the meantime many
people think that a snelled hook is a hook tied to a piece of line. This is
incorrect, it is a hook tied to a piece of line using a snell knot, which
ensures a direct pull on the hook, and when properly tied, retains close to
100% of the line breaking strain. This is the knot favoured by most English
competition anglers, especially for very fine nylon monofilament, and almost
universally in combination with spade end hooks.

The website is also incorrect in saying that the snell knot may only be tied
by passing both ends of the line through the eye. Spade end hooks do not
have eyes.

It also has nothing at all to do with the attachment being "quick and
simple", as stated on the website at the URL I posted, it is in fact nothing
of the kind. Snelling hooks properly is actually quite difficult. This is
also the main reason why it is not done on the river bank for instance, but
at home in comfort. The snelled hooks are usually attached by a loop to the
main line, which also allows for quick changes to different sized or shaped
hooks to suit various baits, fish and conditions.

It is often the case that the snelled line is weaker than the main line, but
this is not essentially so.

The site was merely the first one I found which showed the snell knot.

Are you asking me if you are still top posting? I have no idea. But not in
this instance at any rate.

TL
MC