| 单词 | gloat-eel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgloat-eel A species of eel (see quots.). Also gloat-eel. ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 163 Grigs, Shafflins and Glout. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 114 There is another variety of this fish [sc. the eel] known in the Thames by the name of Grigs, and about Oxford by that of Grigs or Gluts. 1776 R. Twiss Tour Ireland 97 Perch, salmon, pike, trout, glut-eels, silver-eels. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. 243 The ‘hooking’ eel or ‘gloat,’—the blackish medium-sized eel taken by anglers, babbers, and on night-lines. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Gloat or Glot. < as lemmas |
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