| 释义 |
ˈspratter
[f. sprat n.1]
a. dial. The guillemot.
b. A vessel or man engaged in sprat-fishing.
1863Wise New Forest Gloss., Spratter, the common guillemot (Uria troile). 1883R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log ix, She may have been a pleasure-yacht in her day, but can never be so again; for once a spratter, always a spratter. Ibid., Strange to say, spratters, especially in rough weather, rather dread getting the net full of fish. |