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sea-swine
1. A porpoise. Obs. exc. dial.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Isidre..spekeþ of þe see swyne þat is comynlich icleped suillus. a1450Mirk's Festial 2 The iij. day þe seeswyne and þe cloppys of þe see schull stond on þe see and make roryng noyse so hyddous. 1509Watson Ship of Fools lxx. (1517) Q vi, Loke that thou be well ware of the yre of the see swyne the whyche wyll folowe thy shyppe. 1671Ray in Phil. Trans. VII. 2279 Most nations calling this fish Porcus Marinus, or the Sea-swine. 1884Leisure Hour June 374/2 The porpoise..was found on the table of the queen. The Saxons called it sea-swine.
2. Sc. (See quot. 1880–4.)
1803Sibbald's Fife & Kinross 128 note, Several of them [Wrasses] are occasionally caught in the Firth of Forth, and are called by our fishers by the general name of Sea Swine. 1880–4F. Day Brit. Fishes I. 255 Labrus lineatus... Ballan⁓wrasse, sea-swine, Moray Firth, owing to its making a squeaking noise like a pig. |