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▪ I. parr1, par|pɑː(r)|
[app. of Scottish origin; derivation unknown.]
1. A young salmon before it becomes a smolt; distinguished by the parallel transverse bands on its side; = brandling n. 2.
Formerly supposed to be a distinct species.
1715–22Pennecuik Descr. Tweeddale Wks. (1815) 107 Salmo salmulus, Samlet, or Par. a1771Smollett Ode to Leven-Water, The scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood;..The salmon, monarch of the tide, The ruthless pike, intent on war; The silver eel and motled par. 1820Scott Abbot xxiv, Par, which some suppose infant salmon. 1827― Jrnl. 9 May, Warm dispute whether par are or are not salmon trout. 1844Zoologist II. 527 note, Brandling-trout, fingerling, par, smolt, &c. all denote the same fish. 1862Act 25 & 26 Vict. c. 97 §2 ‘Salmon’ shall..include..bull trout, smolts, parr, and any other migratory fish of the salmon kind. 1868Peard Water-farm. x. 103 The ova deposited in our boxes have long since become parr.
2. A young coal-fish or black cod, less than a year old (see billet3); a sillock. local.
1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 153 Coal Fish, The fry..are called at Scarborough Parrs, and when a year old, Billets. About nine or ten years ago such a glut of Parrs visited that part, that for several weeks it was impossible to dip a pail into the sea without taking some. 1832J. Cole Scarborough Guide 108 The principal fish brought to Scarborough for sale are..herrings, whiting, parr, billits, colefish.
3. attrib. and Comb., as parr-fishing; parr-marks, the dark transverse bands which characterize the salmon in the parr stage; parr-tail, an artificial fly used in salmon fishing.
1889Daily News 9 July 5/3 What better means of diminishing the population of salmon can be invented than free *parr⁓fishing?
1867F. Francis Angling ix. (1880) 305 With bands or marks on the sides known as *parr-marks.
1866Crichton Ramble in Arcades 129 Though we spun the *parr-tail assiduously we did not succeed in moving one [salmon]. 1867F. Francis Angling v. (1880) 294.
▪ II. parr2 dial.
Also parre, par.
(See quot.)
1847Halliwell, Parre, a young leveret (Devon). [Thence in Webster, etc.] |