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† pimpernol Obs.
[= OF. pimpernel, -neau, ‘a broad-nosed variety of the common eel’ (G. A. Boulanger), ‘a grig, scaffling, spitchcocke, fowson Eele’ (Cotgr.).]
A small kind of eel.
1251Liberate Roll 35 Hen. III, 15 Sept. (P.R.O.), Rex vicecomiti Cantebrigie salutem. Precipimus tibi quod in balliva tua emas ad opus nostrum x milia anguillarum que vocantur Pimpernoll. 1392–3Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 215 Pro piscibus recentibus..item pro xxvj pimpernol, xvjs. |