单词 | eel-pot |
释义 | > as lemmaseel-pot 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. < as lemmas |
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