单词 | pacific tomcod |
释义 | > as lemmasPacific tomcod a. Originally North American. A small fish of the western North Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod (family Gadidae), caught seasonally along the North American coast (also called frost fish). In later use also: (in full Pacific tomcod) a similar fish of North Pacific waters, M. proximus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of frost fish1634 tomcod1795 beardy1880 1722 New-Eng. Courant 1 Oct. 1/2 Some Fishermen in Boston made me pay Two Pence for the Sight of a Tom-Cod instead of a Maremaid. 1764 Public Advertiser 17 Aug. For Frost Fish, or Tom Cods, one Shilling by the Dozen. 1769 Mass. Gaz. 16 Feb. Whether the ninety two tom-cod and seventeen scalpions are yet digested. 1795 J. Sullivan Hist. Maine 21 The people have tom cod, or what they call frost fish, smelts, and also alewives in great plenty. 1836 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 31 Aug.–25 Oct. in Centenary Ed. Wks. (1994) XXIII. 148 A small natural reservoir of water, far above low-water mark, in which I have observed tomcods always swimming about. 1852 San Francisco Herald 29 Nov. 2/1 A silent vow of meditation, portentous of death to tom-cods and other imprudent little fishes that come darting around the city wharves. 1941 G. de Poncins & L. Galantière Kabloona (1942) ii. i. 118 The tom-cod is a wretched fish, all mouth, and a man had to be poor indeed to want it. 1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush i. 18 The white whales..had been stuffing themselves on tomcods in the slushy surf off Nome. 1977 National Geographic Apr. 457 (caption) City on ice blooms each winter on the Rivière Sainte-Anne, a tributary of the St. Lawrence, as fishermen set up their mobile huts for two-month harvest of tomcod. 2014 @jaydentonsfarm 28 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) A few locals have holes punched in the ice on the Buckland River. Catching mostly Tomcod. < as lemmas |
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