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‖ torgoch|ˈtɔrgɔx|
Also 7 torcoch; (erron.) 7 torcoth, 8 torgotch.
[Welsh torgoch, f. tor belly + coch red.]
The red-bellied char, a variety of the common char, found in the Welsh lakes.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 123/2 In the poole Lin-Peris, there is a kinde of fish called there Torcoch, having a red belly, no where else seene. 1756in Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 616/2 Torgotch, or Red-belly, which distinguishes the female. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 4 The English fishes that we have in our ponds, rivers, &c. are as follow: Umbla minor, Gesn. The Red Charr, or Welch Torgoch. 1924Glasgow Herald 8 Feb. 8 Among the fish got in the Clyde at that time (about 1840) was the..torgoch or char. 1936J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 237 The Torgoch..inhabits two lakes near Llanberis. |