3. (nautical).—See quot.

1883. Illustrated London News, 16 June, p. 603, col. 2. It is

proposed to prevent the use of the devil, a kind of sharpened

anchor, at the bows of a trawler for cutting the nets of drifters

in the North Sea.

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