| 单词 | grig-eel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrig-eel a. A species of eel; a small or young eel (see quots.). Also more fully grig-eel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types pimpernol1251 shaft-eel1411 kempc1440 snig1483 stub eel15.. fausen1547 shafflin1553 muraena1555 scaffling1589 grig1611 long-fish1611 stone-grig1666 sea-serpent1752 bed-eel1769 sniggle1863 slipper1866 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anguillette, a Grig, or little Eele. 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 130 Silly Grigge! Come out of thy Pond and Mud. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 192 The silver-Eele, and green or greenish Eel (with which the River of Thames abounds, and are called Gregs ). View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 An eel first a Fausen, then a Grigg, or Snigg. 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Elvers A sort of Griggs, or small Eels, which..swim on the top of the Water, about Bristol. 1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 193 The Greenish, or Greg-Eel. 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. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxi. 234 The grig is a yellowish eel, with a projecting underjaw. < as lemmas |
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