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† rope-sick, a. Obs.
Also roope-sicke.
[ad. Du. dial. ropziek (Boekenoogen Zaansche Volkstaal 857).]
Of herring: Having the back infested with parasitic worms.
The pamphlet of 1614 is the source of later quots.
1614T. Gentleman Eng. Way to win Wealth 15 The roope-sicke Herrings that will not serue to make barreld Herrings. Ibid. 20 They [herrings]..do alwaies at that season become Roope-sicke and do spawne and become Shotten betwixt Wintertonness and Orfordness. Ibid. 29. 1622 Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 243 All those Herrings..(which are rope-sicke) they may not bring home into Holland. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts vi. (1704) 524/2 Betwixt Winterton and Orfordness they use to Spawn, and are called by the Hollanders the Rope-sick Herrings. |