| 单词 | full-roed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfull-roed Of a fish: carrying roe; full of spawn. Chiefly as the second element in compounds, as full-roed, hard-roed, soft-roed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > ready to spawn or full of spawn fulla1398 roed1598 ripe1853 the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > having hard spawn hard-roed1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 199/2 Lattarini, any soft rowed fish. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Oeuf Harenc aux œufs, a full-rowed, or hard-rowed Herring. 1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 5. 40 There was one executed last Munday for drowning himself, he at first denyed the Act, thinking thereby to be prest and save his Lands, he was taken in the belly of a hard-row'd Shad. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. lx. 235 Fresh Herrings full-roed. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Take soft-row'd Herrings, slit them down the Back, and bone them. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 161 The fishermen take great numbers [of ling] without ever finding any of the female or roed fish among them. 1799 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 2 221 There are also hard-roed mackarel. 1819 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 7 Scotch herrings.., being roed, and very luscious, do not keep so sound. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 374 In November, when schooling begins, the fish are full-roed. 1920 B. W. Evermann & H. W. Clark Lake Maxinkuckee I. 423 They are in the finest condition when full-roed. 1994 Yale French Stud. 85 83 I again felt up to making marinated herring, preferably soft-roed. < as lemmas |
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