ˈlord-fish
[Cf. lord n. 14 b.]
(See quot.)
| 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 165 Some years since, I obtained from a fisherman at the mouth of the Thames a fresh-caught example of a species of morrhua, with the middle dorsal and the first anal fins short... Among the fishermen it was by some considered to be an accidental deformity, with injury of the spine, and their name for it was Lord-fish. |