different between snagger vs slagger

English

snag +? -er

snagger (plural snaggers)

(fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.
A tool for lopping superfluous branches from a tree.
(Australia, shearing) The slowest shearer is the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.
A person who works on a snag-boat clearing away obstacles in the river.

From slag +? -er.

slagger (plural slaggers)

One who slags.
- 1999, Elizabeth A. Throop, Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family, and Public Life in Dublin, page 54,
  The proper response to slagging is to laugh at oneself while “getting back” at one?s slagger.
One who works with slag.
- 2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255,
  Miravich closes his eyes and remembers his days as a slagger. When a mold is full, a slagger moves in with his tool, a techmological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four. He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.

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