eeln.

Brit.

/iːl/, U.S.

/il/

Forms: Old English ǽl, eol, Old English–1500s ele, Middle English–1600s eele, 1500s Scottish eill, (Middle English ȝele, 1500s ye(e)le, 1600s yeale, yeel), Middle English neele, 1500s– eel.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English ǽl = Middle Dutch ael (Dutch aal), Old High German âl (German aal), Old Norse áll (Danish aal, Swedish ål) < Old Germanic *æ̂lo-z. The ultimate etymology is unknown; the hypothesis that the word is cognate with the synonymous Latin anguilla, Greek ἔγχελυς, is untenable.

a. The name of a genus ( Anguilla) of soft-finned osseous fishes, strongly resembling snakes in external appearance. The best known species are the Common or Sharp-nosed Eel ( A. anguilla) found both in Europe and in America, and the Broad-nosed Eel or grig n.¹ ( A. latirostris). The true eels are freshwater fishes, but migrate to the sea to spawn.

b. Used (both in popular and in scientific language) as the name of the entire family Murænidæ, comprising the true eels with several other genera, notably the conger n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Muraenidae (eel)

eelc1000

moray1624

mudworm1700

muraena1753

morene1773

muraenoid1849

warper1901

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 94 Hwilce fixas gefehst þu? Ælas and hacodas, etc.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 308 Hrefnes geallan..& eles, & feld beon hunig meng to somne.

1052–67 Chart. Eadweard in Cod. Dipl. IV. 242 Foure þousend eol in lenton to carite to ðe abbot.

a1300 Havelok 897 A carte lode..Of grete laumprees, and of eles.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Anguilla, neele.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 50 Fyrst flyghe þyn elys, in pese hom smyte.

1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. (1557) 165/2 A blynde bagge full of snakes and eles together.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O iij b The yele is an vnholsome fyshe.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health clxxvi. 141 An olde Yeele is wholesomer than a yong.

a1625 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. (1915) 25 Some of the yeales being worth 2s. a peece.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. lxxxi. 707 The fat..of a mole, eele, or serpent.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 538. ¶3 They pass'd to Eels, then to Parsnips, and so from one Aversion to another.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 110 The Common Eel forms evidently a connecting link..between the Serpent tribe and the Fishes.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 53 It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 The silver-bellied eel or bed-eel..corresponds to the sharp-nosed eel.

c. In figurative phrases, as the type of something ‘slippery’.

ΚΠ

1524 Duke of Norfolk in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 224 Whosoever have hym best, is no more sure of hym, than he that hath an ele by the tayle.

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. 99 They haue sweete eeles to hould by.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 374 He may possibly take an eel by the tail in marrying a wife.

†d. salt eel: a rope's end used for flogging. Obsolete. [ < the use of an eel skin as a whip.]

ΚΠ

1663 S. Pepys Diary 24 Apr. (1971) IV. 109 With my salt Eele went down in the parler, and there got my boy and did beat him.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Salt-eel, a Rope's end used to Drub the Boies and Sailors on board of Ship.

2. Applied popularly to various other fishes resembling eels in their snake-like form. electric eel: see as main entry; nine-eyed eel: the River Lamprey. sand eel: the Launce of Ammodyte.

ΚΠ

a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 154 Sand-eel [Given as a synonym for the launce].

1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 555 Lesser Lamprey... The popular name Nine-eyed-eel arises from the spiracles being taken for eyes.

3. The popular name for the minute animals (resembling an eel in shape) found in vinegar ( Anguillula aceti) and in sour paste ( A. glutinis). They are Entozoa of the order Nematoidea.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula

eel1746

paste eel1750

vinegar-eel1836

vinegar worm1896

1746 J. Sherwood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 67 The Eels in sour Paste are the Animalcules in Question.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The long bodied animalcules, discovered by the microscope in vinegar, sour paste, etc...have been generally distinguished..by the name of eels.

1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xv. 622 Anguillulæ or ‘eels’ of the Microscopist.

4. U.S. A nickname for a New Englander.

ΚΠ

1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 318 The eels of New England and the corncrakers of Virginia.

Compounds

C1. General combinations:

a. Attributive.

(a)

eel-boat n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads vi. 43 These eel-boats are precisely like the Noah's ark of childhood.

eel-fishery n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 235 The eel fisheries are nearly as valuable as the salmon fisheries.

eel-freak n.

ΚΠ

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 101 This singular eel-freak.

eel-fry n.

ΚΠ

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 101 Thousands and thousands of eel-fry all alive in the bodies of eels.

eel-line n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 137 Formerly eel-lines, with a thousand hooks strung on at intervals..used to be set.

eel-man n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels

eeler1851

sticherer1872

bobber1882

eel-fisher1883

eel-man1883

eel-picker1883

eel-spearer1883

picker1885

sun-spearer1885

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 251 The eelmen, living so much on the water..become very observant.

eel-net n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 145 The eel-net is set across the dyke to catch them [eels] in its long ‘poke’.

eel-oil n.

eel-pie n.

ΚΠ

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 137 An Eel Pye.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 340/1 Monstrellet mentions horseloads of eel-pies brought from Mantes to the market of Paris.

1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 21 But I shrink from thee, Arab! Thou eat'st eel-pie.

eel-river n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 249 The Yare is the best eel-river of all.

eel-trap n.

ΚΠ

1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. i. 5 The bladders are on the principle of an eel-trap, having a closed entrance with a flap which permits an easy entrance, but effectually prevents the unfortunate victim from getting out again.

eel-weir n.

ΚΠ

1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xvii. 180 At various points in the course of the rivers eel-weirs are placed.

(b)

eel-like adj. and adv.

ΚΠ

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 41 The Eel-like particles of water.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. vii. 103 Eel-like positions.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. i. iii. 33 Eel-like gliding, Skipping and hiding.

b. Objective.

eel-catching n.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 Naturalists can only rely upon the observations of those whose occupation is connected with eel-catching.

eel-fisher n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels

eeler1851

sticherer1872

bobber1882

eel-fisher1883

eel-man1883

eel-picker1883

eel-spearer1883

picker1885

sun-spearer1885

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads vi. 43 Through the night the eel-fisher sits in his cabin..waiting for the eels the stream will bring to his net.

eel-netting n.

C2. Special combinations. Also eel-grass n.

eel-bobber n. (also eel-babber) = bobber n.¹ 2.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 The bunch of worms strung on worsted with which the eel-babber works.

eel-basket n. a trap of basket-work with funnel-shaped entrance, allowing the eels to enter, but preventing their escape.

ΚΠ

1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 125 Eel Putchons..are the ordinary eel baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels.

eel-back n. U.S. (see quot.)

ΚΠ

1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 183 The Smooth Flounder,..Pleuronectes glaber,..may be distinguished from the former [sc. the Flat Fish] by its smooth skin, which has given to the species, in some localities, the name ‘Eel-back’.

eel-backed adj. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Eel-Back'd Horses, such as have black Lists along their Backs.

eel-bob n. (see bob n.¹ 7).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > bait for eels

bob1648

blob1874

eel-bob1883

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 196 Hand-lines..snares and eel-bobs; Indian fishing lines.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads v. 40 An eel-fisher..treading lob-worms on to worsted for the purpose of making an eel-bob.

eel-buck n. (see buck n.⁴).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

1866 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 471/1 The present alleged fishery rights for netting and eel-bucks are to be revised.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 235 On the Thames..the eels are intercepted in their descent by weirs or frameworks holding basket-work traps, called ‘eel-bucks’.

1885 Sat. Rev. 21 Nov. 673/1 Snigs are only taken in the eel-bucks if they are set with the stream.

eel-cake n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > other prepared foods or dishes > [noun]

mawmenny1381

browet Saracen?c1390

corat?c1390

lete lardes?c1390

lete lory?c1390

burseuc1400

lorey14..

Jack of Doverc1405

bukenadea1425

nesebeka1425

mosy?c1425

blaundsore1430

fauntemperec1430

irchinc1430

white sorréc1430

entraila1450

pasteladea1450

prenadec1450

fignadea1475

frianc1500

profiterole?1521

slampamp1593

flap-dragon1604

eel-cake1653

Lombard1657

hedgehog1723

bird's nest1769

dope18..

negro-pota1818

jug jug1877

King Henry's shoestrings1887

foam-omelet1892

crème1901

farofa1922

chilaquiles1938

metagee1957

Kiev1967

pani puri1969

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > method of dressing eel

spitchcock1597

eel-cake1653

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 189 Small Eeles..The poorer sort..make a kind of Eele-cake of them, and eat it like as bread.

eel-cat n. a channel catfish, Ictalurus anguilla or I. punctatus.

ΚΠ

1898 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) iii. 2789 The eel cat rarely attains a greater weight than 5 pounds.

eel-crow n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 213 Eel crow [given as the popular name of Columbus migratorius].

eel-fork n. = eel-spear n.

eel-hut n. the hut occupied by an eel-fisher when engaged in fishing.

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 250 In these lonely eel-huts..the eel fishers sat watching their nets.

eel-leap n. [leap n.¹ basket] dialect = eel-basket n.

ΚΠ

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eel-leap, an eel-trap made of wickerwork.

eel-pick n. = eel-spear n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] > for eels

algerea1425

augera1425

elgerc1440

eel-spear1555

proking stick1598

pilgera1825

stang1847

sun spear1865

pick1875

prick1880–4

eel-pick1883

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 238 They [eels] work down into the soft mud, far beyond the reach of eel-picks and darts.

eel-picker n. one who fishes with an eel-pick.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels

eeler1851

sticherer1872

bobber1882

eel-fisher1883

eel-man1883

eel-picker1883

eel-spearer1883

picker1885

sun-spearer1885

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxvi. 203 The eel-picker in his little punt..is a common object on the flats.

eel-picking n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for eels in specific manner

bobbing1620

sniggling1661

pitching1674

eeling1780

sand-eeling1862

sun spearing1865

stichering1872

blobbing1877

eel-picking1883

eel-spearing1883

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 143 Eel-picking is an art in which some men attain considerable skill. Sometimes an eel-picking match takes place on the Broad.

eel-pot n. = eel-buck n.; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

1631 in T. Hutchinson Coll. Orig. Papers Massachusetts-Bay (1769) 51 The yeele potts you sent for are made.

1647 J. Eliot Let. 24 Sept. in T. Shepard Clear Sunshine (1648) 28 All winter they sell Brooms, Staves, Elepots, Baskets.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 143 Manchester Buildings is an eel-pot, which has no outlet but its awkward mouth.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 8 Eel Pot, for use in salt water.

eel-putchon n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 125 Eel Putchons..are the ordinary eel baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels.

eel-schuit n. an eel-boat.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 269 Dutch eel-skuyt, a flat-bottomed somewhat cutter-rigged sea-boat.

1899 Academy 18 Nov. 567/1 The Dutch eel schuyt is familiar to Londoners.

1905 M. A. Wyllie London to the Nore iv. 42 Gaily painted and varnished Dutch eel-schuits.

eel-set n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

157. H. Manship Great Yarmouth in G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxvii Certen ele settes..all soch fishe as usually are tacon in the seid settes.

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 97 Eelsets..are nets set athwart the stream for the purpose of catching a..species of eel.

eel-setter n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 98 The oldest Norfolk eel-setters.

eel-setting n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 250 This [ebb and flow of the tide] militates against eel-setting.

eel-trunk n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eel-trunk, a box with holes in the sides, in which eels are kept alive till wanted for the table.

eel-ware n. Ranunculus fluitans (Britten and Holland).

eel-weel n. (misspelt eel-wheel) = eel-buck n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels

eel-set157.

kill1630

eel-pot1631

buck1694

burrock1701

grig-weel1798

hinaki1845

eel-buck1866

eel-putchon1883

eel-weel1883

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 57 Eel Wheels or Traps. Lampern Spurts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eel
释义	eeln. Brit. /iːl/, U.S. /il/ Forms: Old English ǽl, eol, Old English–1500s ele, Middle English–1600s eele, 1500s Scottish eill, (Middle English ȝele, 1500s ye(e)le, 1600s yeale, yeel), Middle English neele, 1500s– eel. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English ǽl = Middle Dutch ael (Dutch aal), Old High German âl (German aal), Old Norse áll (Danish aal, Swedish ål) < Old Germanic æ̂lo-z. The ultimate etymology is unknown; the hypothesis that the word is cognate with the synonymous Latin anguilla, Greek ἔγχελυς, is untenable. 1. a. The name of a genus ( Anguilla) of soft-finned osseous fishes, strongly resembling snakes in external appearance. The best known species are the Common or Sharp-nosed Eel ( A. anguilla) found both in Europe and in America, and the Broad-nosed Eel or grig n.¹ ( A. latirostris). The true eels are freshwater fishes, but migrate to the sea to spawn. b. Used (both in popular and in scientific language) as the name of the entire family Murænidæ, comprising the true eels with several other genera, notably the conger n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Muraenidae (eel) eelc1000 moray1624 mudworm1700 muraena1753 morene1773 muraenoid1849 warper1901 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab.* (1884) I. 94 Hwilce fixas gefehst þu? Ælas and hacodas, etc. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 308 Hrefnes geallan..& eles, & feld beon hunig meng to somne. 1052–67 Chart. Eadweard in Cod. Dipl. IV. 242 Foure þousend eol in lenton to carite to ðe abbot. a1300 Havelok 897 A carte lode..Of grete laumprees, and of eles. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Anguilla, neele. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 50 Fyrst flyghe þyn elys, in pese hom smyte. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. (1557) 165/2 A blynde bagge full of snakes and eles together. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O iij b The yele is an vnholsome fyshe. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health clxxvi. 141 An olde Yeele is wholesomer than a yong. a1625 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. (1915) 25 Some of the yeales being worth 2s. a peece. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. lxxxi. 707 The fat..of a mole, eele, or serpent. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 538. ¶3 They pass'd to Eels, then to Parsnips, and so from one Aversion to another. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 110 The Common Eel forms evidently a connecting link..between the Serpent tribe and the Fishes. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 53 It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 The silver-bellied eel or bed-eel..corresponds to the sharp-nosed eel. c. In figurative phrases, as the type of something ‘slippery’. ΚΠ 1524 Duke of Norfolk in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 224 Whosoever have hym best, is no more sure of hym, than he that hath an ele by the tayle. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. 99 They haue sweete eeles to hould by. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 374 He may possibly take an eel by the tail in marrying a wife. †d. salt eel: a rope's end used for flogging. Obsolete. [ < the use of an eel skin as a whip.] ΚΠ 1663 S. Pepys Diary 24 Apr. (1971) IV. 109 With my salt Eele went down in the parler, and there got my boy and did beat him. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Salt-eel, a Rope's end used to Drub the Boies and Sailors on board of Ship. 2. Applied popularly to various other fishes resembling eels in their snake-like form. electric eel: see as main entry; nine-eyed eel: the River Lamprey. sand eel: the Launce of Ammodyte. ΚΠ a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 154 Sand-eel [Given as a synonym for the launce]. 1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 555 Lesser Lamprey... The popular name Nine-eyed-eel arises from the spiracles being taken for eyes. 3. The popular name for the minute animals (resembling an eel in shape) found in vinegar ( Anguillula aceti) and in sour paste ( A. glutinis). They are Entozoa of the order Nematoidea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula eel1746 paste eel1750 vinegar-eel1836 vinegar worm1896 1746 J. Sherwood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 67 The Eels in sour Paste are the Animalcules in Question. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The long bodied animalcules, discovered by the microscope in vinegar, sour paste, etc...have been generally distinguished..by the name of eels. 1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope xv. 622 Anguillulæ or ‘eels’ of the Microscopist. 4. U.S. A nickname for a New Englander. ΚΠ 1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 318 The eels of New England and the corncrakers of Virginia. Compounds C1. General combinations: a. Attributive. (a) eel-boat n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads vi. 43 These eel-boats are precisely like the Noah's ark of childhood. eel-fishery n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 235 The eel fisheries are nearly as valuable as the salmon fisheries. eel-freak n. ΚΠ 1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 101 This singular eel-freak. eel-fry n. ΚΠ 1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 101 Thousands and thousands of eel-fry all alive in the bodies of eels. eel-line n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 137 Formerly eel-lines, with a thousand hooks strung on at intervals..used to be set. eel-man n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels eeler1851 sticherer1872 bobber1882 eel-fisher1883 eel-man1883 eel-picker1883 eel-spearer1883 picker1885 sun-spearer1885 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 251 The eelmen, living so much on the water..become very observant. eel-net n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 145 The eel-net is set across the dyke to catch them [eels] in its long ‘poke’. eel-oil n. eel-pie n. ΚΠ 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 137 An Eel Pye. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 340/1 Monstrellet mentions horseloads of eel-pies brought from Mantes to the market of Paris. 1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 21 But I shrink from thee, Arab! Thou eat'st eel-pie. eel-river n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 249 The Yare is the best eel-river of all. eel-trap n. ΚΠ 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. i. 5 The bladders are on the principle of an eel-trap, having a closed entrance with a flap which permits an easy entrance, but effectually prevents the unfortunate victim from getting out again. eel-weir n. ΚΠ 1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xvii. 180 At various points in the course of the rivers eel-weirs are placed. (b) eel-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 41 The Eel-like particles of water. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. vii. 103 Eel-like positions. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. i. iii. 33 Eel-like gliding, Skipping and hiding. b. Objective. eel-catching n. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 Naturalists can only rely upon the observations of those whose occupation is connected with eel-catching. eel-fisher n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels eeler1851 sticherer1872 bobber1882 eel-fisher1883 eel-man1883 eel-picker1883 eel-spearer1883 picker1885 sun-spearer1885 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads vi. 43 Through the night the eel-fisher sits in his cabin..waiting for the eels the stream will bring to his net. eel-netting n. C2. Special combinations. Also eel-grass n. eel-bobber n. (also eel-babber) = bobber n.¹ 2. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 237 The bunch of worms strung on worsted with which the eel-babber works. eel-basket n. a trap of basket-work with funnel-shaped entrance, allowing the eels to enter, but preventing their escape. ΚΠ 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 125 Eel Putchons..are the ordinary eel baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels. eel-back n. U.S. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 183 The Smooth Flounder,..Pleuronectes glaber,..may be distinguished from the former [sc. the Flat Fish] by its smooth skin, which has given to the species, in some localities, the name ‘Eel-back’. eel-backed adj. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Eel-Back'd Horses, such as have black Lists along their Backs. eel-bob n. (see bob n.¹ 7). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > bait for eels bob1648 blob1874 eel-bob1883 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 196 Hand-lines..snares and eel-bobs; Indian fishing lines. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads v. 40 An eel-fisher..treading lob-worms on to worsted for the purpose of making an eel-bob. eel-buck n. (see buck n.⁴). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 1866 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 471/1 The present alleged fishery rights for netting and eel-bucks are to be revised. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 235 On the Thames..the eels are intercepted in their descent by weirs or frameworks holding basket-work traps, called ‘eel-bucks’. 1885 Sat. Rev. 21 Nov. 673/1 Snigs are only taken in the eel-bucks if they are set with the stream. eel-cake n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > other prepared foods or dishes > [noun] mawmenny1381 browet Saracen?c1390 corat?c1390 lete lardes?c1390 lete lory?c1390 burseuc1400 lorey14.. Jack of Doverc1405 bukenadea1425 nesebeka1425 mosy?c1425 blaundsore1430 fauntemperec1430 irchinc1430 white sorréc1430 entraila1450 pasteladea1450 prenadec1450 fignadea1475 frianc1500 profiterole?1521 slampamp1593 flap-dragon1604 eel-cake1653 Lombard1657 hedgehog1723 bird's nest1769 dope18.. negro-pota1818 jug jug1877 King Henry's shoestrings1887 foam-omelet1892 crème1901 farofa1922 chilaquiles1938 metagee1957 Kiev1967 pani puri1969 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > method of dressing eel spitchcock1597 eel-cake1653 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 189 Small Eeles..The poorer sort..make a kind of Eele-cake of them, and eat it like as bread. View more context for this quotation eel-cat n. a channel catfish, Ictalurus anguilla or I. punctatus. ΚΠ 1898 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) iii. 2789 The eel cat rarely attains a greater weight than 5 pounds. eel-crow n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 213 Eel crow [given as the popular name of Columbus migratorius]. eel-fork n. = eel-spear n. eel-hut n. the hut occupied by an eel-fisher when engaged in fishing. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 250 In these lonely eel-huts..the eel fishers sat watching their nets. eel-leap n. [leap n.¹ basket] dialect = eel-basket n. ΚΠ 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eel-leap, an eel-trap made of wickerwork. eel-pick n. = eel-spear n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun] > for eels algerea1425 augera1425 elgerc1440 eel-spear1555 proking stick1598 pilgera1825 stang1847 sun spear1865 pick1875 prick1880–4 eel-pick1883 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 238 They [eels] work down into the soft mud, far beyond the reach of eel-picks and darts. eel-picker n. one who fishes with an eel-pick. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for eels eeler1851 sticherer1872 bobber1882 eel-fisher1883 eel-man1883 eel-picker1883 eel-spearer1883 picker1885 sun-spearer1885 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxvi. 203 The eel-picker in his little punt..is a common object on the flats. eel-picking n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for eels in specific manner bobbing1620 sniggling1661 pitching1674 eeling1780 sand-eeling1862 sun spearing1865 stichering1872 blobbing1877 eel-picking1883 eel-spearing1883 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 143 Eel-picking is an art in which some men attain considerable skill. Sometimes an eel-picking match takes place on the Broad. eel-pot n. = eel-buck n.; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 1631 in T. Hutchinson Coll. Orig. Papers Massachusetts-Bay (1769) 51 The yeele potts you sent for are made. 1647 J. Eliot Let. 24 Sept. in T. Shepard Clear Sunshine (1648) 28 All winter they sell Brooms, Staves, Elepots, Baskets. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 143 Manchester Buildings is an eel-pot, which has no outlet but its awkward mouth. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 8 Eel Pot, for use in salt water. eel-putchon n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 125 Eel Putchons..are the ordinary eel baskets that are baited and placed in the river during the spring and summer months for eels. eel-schuit n. an eel-boat. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 269 Dutch eel-skuyt, a flat-bottomed somewhat cutter-rigged sea-boat. 1899 Academy 18 Nov. 567/1 The Dutch eel schuyt is familiar to Londoners. 1905 M. A. Wyllie London to the Nore iv. 42 Gaily painted and varnished Dutch eel-schuits. eel-set n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 157. H. Manship Great Yarmouth in G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxvii Certen ele settes..all soch fishe as usually are tacon in the seid settes. 1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 97 Eelsets..are nets set athwart the stream for the purpose of catching a..species of eel. eel-setter n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 98 The oldest Norfolk eel-setters. eel-setting n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxii. 250 This [ebb and flow of the tide] militates against eel-setting. eel-trunk n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eel-trunk, a box with holes in the sides, in which eels are kept alive till wanted for the table. eel-ware n. Ranunculus fluitans (Britten and Holland). eel-weel n. (misspelt eel-wheel) = eel-buck n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > trap for eels eel-set157. kill1630 eel-pot1631 buck1694 burrock1701 grig-weel1798 hinaki1845 eel-buck1866 eel-putchon1883 eel-weel1883 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 57 Eel Wheels or Traps. Lampern Spurts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eelv. Brit. /iːl/, U.S. /il/ Etymology: < eel n. intransitive. a. To fish for eels. b. To move or progress sinuously like an eel. Also (with way) transitive. Cf. eeling n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > with sinuous or writhing motion writhec1275 wriggle1602 squirm1759 worm1802 eel1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 220 Five..sandwichmen..eeled themselves. ?1953 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 416 I must..ooze and eel up wheezily. 1962 M. Drabble Summer Bird-cage xi. 185 I..use a small red plastic colander, and everything eels into the sink as often as not. 1969 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 6 (advt.) The Herald 13/60..simply eels its way through town traffic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1000v.1922
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