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shell-fish|ˈʃɛlfɪʃ|
[OE. scilfisc = ON. skelfiskr.]
Any animal living in water whose outer covering is a shell, whether testaceous, as an oyster, or crustaceous, as a crab.
c888ælfred Boeth. xli. §5 Maniᵹe sint cwucera ᵹesceafta unstirende, swa swa nu scylfiscas sint. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. met. v. (1868) 50 Þe blode of a manar shelfysshe þat men fynden in tyrie, wiþ whiche blode men deien purper. Ibid. v. pr. v. 21 Oystres and muscles and oþer swiche shelle fysshe of þe see. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 69 Schel fische and scalid fisch. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 705/26 Hoc conchile, alle maner schelfyche. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 22 The shelle fyshe called the Tortoyse of the sea. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God v. vi. 204 Crabs..and all shel-fishes. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 179 The Clacas, which is absolutely the very best Shell-fish in the World. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 255 Shell⁓fish are nourishing. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Shell⁓fish, the term is chiefly applied in commerce to crabs, lobsters, and cray-fish, oysters, mussels, periwinkles, and whelks, in which a large trade is carried on.
Comb.1837Thackeray Professor Wks. 1899 XIII. 496 The father of Miss Adeliza Grampus was a shell-fishmonger. 1896J. Lamb Ann. Ayrshire Parish i. 21 A happy hunting⁓ground for shell-fish gatherers.
b. fig. of a person.
1809Malkin Gil Blas xii. v. (Rtldg.) 430 Open-mouthed and impenetrable shell-fish.
Hence ˈshell-ˌfishery, ˈshell-ˌfishing.
1868Harper's Mag. Dec. 12/2 Our men, some of whom were practiced in the business of shell-fishing,..very soon dug up a very fine feast of clams. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 108/1 The cultivation of oysters and other shell-fisheries. 1901Westm. Gaz. 31 Oct. 12/1 The shell-fishing..has been wonderfully successful. |