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shaft-eel
† shaft-eel Obs. [? shaft n.2, referring to the shape.] A kind of eel. Cf. shafflin.1411 Cal. Let. Bks. Hen. IV, I. 102 [printed shastele]. 15.. in Dugdale Monasticon (1655) I. 81/2 Schafte eles to bake for the covent on shere thursday. 1545 Rates Custom Ho. b j b, Elis called shaft kyue or dele eli...
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shafflin
† ˈshafflin Obs. rare. Also 6 shafflynge (in Continental authors schafoling, schafling, -lyng). [Perh. the same word with shaftling, though applied to a different fish. Cf. shaft-eel.] A kind of eel.1553 Belon De Aquatil. 273 Anglorum autem pisces..hisce nominibus agnoscuntur,..Eils, Lampres, Schafo...
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