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ˈriver-fish Also river fish. [f. river n.1 Cf. Du. riviervisch.] Any fish that has its habitat in a river or stream; a freshwater fish.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xii. (Bodl. MS.), Laye fische..beþ nouȝt so goode as ryuer fissches. 1587Harrison England iii. iii. (1878) 18 Pike, carpe, and some other of our riuer fishes are solde by inches of cleane fish. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 95 They have little plenty of River fish, excepting onely Eales. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 376 It yeeldeth Wine and Wheat.., and affordeth Cattell, Horse, and River-fish. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl., Lampern, a river fish of the lamprey kind found in many parts of England. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 6 Worthy among river fish to be compared with sea fish. |