| 释义 |
elver|ˈɛlvə(r)|
[var. of eelfare.]
A young eel, esp. a young conger or sea-eel. Also attrib., as in elver-cake, a cake made of elvers.
c1640J. Smyth Hundred Berkeley (1885) 319 Elvers, supposed by some to bee the younge eele. 1679Locke in Lord King Life (1858) 134 At Bristol..taste..elvers. 1748De Foe, etc. Tour Gt. Brit. II. 306 [Little eels] they make..into small Cakes..These Elver-cakes they dispose of at Bath and Bristol. 1726Dict. Rust., Elvers, a sort of Griggs, or small Eels. 1863H. C. Pennell Angler-nat. 394 The Eelets, or Elvers, are at first very small and transparent.
Hence ˈelverhood. nonce-wd.
1886Fishing 18 Sept. 414 Eels of the size caught..at the New Mills..must have passed all their lives since elverhood above the mills. |