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skegger
skegger (ˈskɛgə(r)) Also 7 skeggar, 8 scegger, 9 scagger. [Of obscure origin.] A young salmon, a samlet; salmon fry.1653 Walton Angler vi. 141 There is more than one sort of them [salmon], as namely, a Tecon, and another called in some places a Samlet, or by some, a Skegger. 1658 Franck North. Mem. ...
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shegger
shegger misprint for skegger.1758 Binnell Descr. Thames 175 Little Trout, called a Samlet or Shegger-Trout.
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hepper
hepper A local name of a smolt, or young salmon of the second year.1861 Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, salmon..pink, last spring, hepper, last brood, gravelling..or by any other local name. 1885 F....
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tecon
† tecon Obs. rare—1. A fish mentioned by Walton as a kind of salmon: see quots.1653 Walton Angler vi. 141 There is more then one sort of them [salmon], as namely, a Tecon, and another called in some places a Samlet, or by some, a Skegger: but these..may be fish of another kind. 1760 Hawkins Note, Th...
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trout
▪ I. trout, n.1 (traʊt) Forms: 1–2 truht, 3 troit, 4 trouȝt(e, trouhte, troȝte, 4–5 trote, 4–6 trute, trowte, 4–7 troute, 5 trowȝt(e, trowyt, troughte, trouth(e, troyte, (tryotht), 6–7 trowt, trought, (7 trowet, troot), 6– trout. [OE. truht, ad. late L. tructus, tructa, truta, trutta, etc. = Gr. τρώ...
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shed
▪ I. shed, n.1 (ʃɛd) Forms: 1 (ᵹe)scéad, 1–2 scád, 3 schad, Orm. shæd, 4–6 schede, shede, 4–7 sched, 5 sced, schade, 5, 8, 9 dial. sheed, 6 schedde, sheyde, 6–7 shead(e, shedde, Sc. schad, 7, 9 dial. shade, 4– shed. [OE. (ᵹe)scēad, altered form of (ᵹe)sceád neut.:—OTeut. type *(ga)skaiđo-m, f. root ...
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