elvern.

Brit.

/ˈɛlvə/, U.S.

/ˈɛlvər/

Forms: Also 1600s yelver.

Etymology: Variant of eel-fare n.

A young eel, esp. a young conger or sea-eel. Also attributive, as in elver-cake n. a cake made of elvers.

ΘΚΠ

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

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a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 Elvers, supposed by some to bee the younge eele.

1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) xiii. 260 In Severn, (where they [sc. young eels] are called Yelvers).

1679 Locke in Ld. King Life (1858) 134 At Bristol..taste..elvers.

1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Elvers, a sort of Griggs, or small Eels.

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 306 [Little eels] they make..into small Cakes.. These Elver-cakes they dispose of at Bath and Bristol.

1863 H. C. Pennell Angler-naturalist 394 The Eelets, or Elvers, are at first very small and transparent.

Derivatives

ˈelverhood n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1886 Fishing 18 Sept. 414 Eels of the size caught..at the New Mills..must have passed all their lives since elverhood above the mills.

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

单词	elver
释义	elvern. Brit. /ˈɛlvə/, U.S. /ˈɛlvər/ Forms: Also 1600s yelver. Etymology: Variant of eel-fare n. A young eel, esp. a young conger or sea-eel. Also attributive, as in elver-cake n. a cake made of elvers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Muraenidae (eel) > young eel-fare1533 elvera1641 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 Elvers, supposed by some to bee the younge eele. 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) xiii. 260 In Severn, (where they [sc. young eels] are called Yelvers). 1679 Locke in Ld. King Life (1858) 134 At Bristol..taste..elvers. 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Elvers, a sort of Griggs, or small Eels. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 306 [Little eels] they make..into small Cakes.. These Elver-cakes they dispose of at Bath and Bristol. 1863 H. C. Pennell Angler-naturalist 394 The Eelets, or Elvers, are at first very small and transparent. Derivatives ˈelverhood n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1886 Fishing 18 Sept. 414 Eels of the size caught..at the New Mills..must have passed all their lives since elverhood above the mills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1641
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