单词 | herling |
释义 | herlinghirlingn. local. The name, on the Scottish shore of the Solway Firth, for the fish Salmo albus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > miscellaneous members of herling1684 whiting salmon1804 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 24 Trachurus. Hunc esse suspicor, qui Dumfrisiensibus nostris Hirling dicitur. 1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 19 (Jam.) The Cluden abounds in fine burn trouts, some salmon, some sea trout, and herlings. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct., Dumfries V. 132 (Jam.) The river Nith produces salmon, trouts, flounders, pike, eels, and a species somewhat larger than herrings, called hirlings. 1834 Jardine in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 2. 51 This fish I consider to be the Salmo albus of Fleming, the Herling or Hirling of the Scotch side of the Solway Frith, the Whiting of the English side. 1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names..yellow fin, sprod, herling, whiting..or by any other local name. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 85 Variety..Herling, Jardine, Berwick. Nat. Club. Compounds herling-house, herling-net, etc. ΚΠ 1834 Jardine in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 2. 51 They are caught..by the stake-nets of small mesh, or, as they are called, herling-houses. 1893 Sc. Leader 10 July 4 Ten men were arrested..on a charge of poaching, herling and small-meshed herling nets being found in their possession. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1684 |
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