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单词 baggit
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baggitn.

/ˈbaɡɪt/
Forms: Also baggot.
Etymology: ? < baggit, Scots form of bagged adj. (sense 1): compare Holland Pliny (1634) I. 303, of conies.
An unbroken female salmon, one that has not shed its eggs when the spawning season is over (as distinct from a kelt n.1 or spent fish).
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1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 13 Adult fish having spawned..are usually called Kelts; the male fish is also called a Kipper, the female a Baggit.
1863 H. C. Pennell Angler-naturalist 267 Kippers, and..Baggits—names by which they are frequently mentioned in Acts of Parliament.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. iv. §9 Baggits generally descend the stream..when hooked.
1887 F. Day Brit. & Irish Salmonidæ 98 The first decision respecting which is ‘clean’ or ‘unclean’ salmon was given in December, 1885, by Mr. Fowler, who considered that a ‘baggit’, or gravid but unspawned fish, comes under the term ‘unclean’.
1931 W. J. M. Menzies Salmon (ed. 2) ii. 39 A few female fish may be found very late in the season..full of unshed ova. Such fish are usually described as ‘baggots’ or ‘rawners’.
1963 Times 26 Jan. 11/4 On Tweed they [sc. unspawned salmon] are called baggots and many hold that they are legal quarry for the spring angler... It is extraordinarily difficult to tell whether a baggot is in fact unbroken.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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