单词 | pickerel |
释义 | pickereln.1 1. A young pike. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) > young or small pickerel1290 pickering1528 Jack1587 pod1587 jeg1611 jack pike1788 pikelet1892 1290 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 352 (MED) Pro 1 pikerel, xviij d. 1338 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 35 In quatuor pykerells empt., 9 d . c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1419 Bet is..a pyk than a pykerel [v.rr. pykrelle, pikerele]. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 641 Hic lucellus, pyckerylle. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 11 Lu[c]es becques becquets Luses pikes pikerellis. 1579 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 402 No pickerell is lawfull eyther to be taken or solde not beinge in length tenne ynches fishe. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 224/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The pike as he ageth, receiueth diuerse names, as from a frie to a gilthed, from a gilthed to a pod, from a pod to a iacke, from a iacke to a pickerell, from a pickerell to a pike, and last of all to a luce. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 110 To sundry fishes..as to the Tench, Pike or Pikerell. 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler v. 81 A young Pickerel or Pariel Jasen or Trout, is a good Bait to trowl with as you can use. 1719 T. Burnet's Sacred Theory of Earth (ed. 4) II. iii. 17 Was he to snare the Shark, as we do young Pickarels? 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 281 A small pickerel..contained no fewer than 25,800 eggs. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 383 The Pike. Pickerell. Jack. Luce. 1891 E. Field Long Ago in Bk. Western Verse 196 I knew the rushes near the mill Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 397 Broad-leaved Pondweed... Local names... Pickerel-weed, Suff, E Ang... In East Anglia it was believed that young pike, or pickerels, were actually bred from the floating leaves. 2. Chiefly North American. Any of several (chiefly smaller) kinds of North American pike, as (more fully grass pickerel) Esox americanus and (more fully chain pickerel) E. niger. Also: a North American pikeperch, as the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum, and the sauger, S. canadense. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > member of pike1314 pike fish1494 pickerel1709 lucioid1859 mud pike1870 herring-pike- the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) hakedeOE pike1314 ged1324 water wolfa1398 luce14.. pike fish1494 lucetc1550 wolf1555 lucern1615 river wolf1655 jack fish1659 luscio1680 lupus1706 pickerel1709 esox1774 fresh-water shark1799 pickering1842 northern1950 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox niger pickerel1709 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Stizostedion (pike-perches) > stizostedion vitreum (wall-eye) pickerel1709 jack salmon1850 wall-eyed pike1869 walleye1888 spike-nose1891 blow-fish1893 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 159 The Jack, Pike, or Pickerel, is exactly the same, in Carolina, as they are in England. Indeed, I never saw this fish so big and large in America, as I have in Europe. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) v. 465 Pickrel, bream, pearch, and other freshwater fish. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. iv. 55 A haul of one thousand Otsego bass, without counting pike, pickerel, perch, bull-pouts, salmontrouts, and suckers, is no bad fishing. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iv. 36 [They] used to go and fish through the ice for pickerel every winter. 1897 Outing 30 435/2 What we termed ‘pickerel’ (wall-eyed pike) were better table-fish. 1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 315 Sauger (Stizostedion canadense)... It is known locally as..‘pickering’, ‘pickerel’, ‘horsefish’, etc. 1954 J. Walker Pardon My Parka iv. 61 You cast as far as you can and then reel in slowly. That's the way to catch pickerel. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 104/2 The fish is one of two pickerels, either the grass pickerel, Esox americanus (with dark bands on the sides) or the chain pickerel, Esox niger (with chainlike reticulations on the sides). 1994 Winnipeg Free Press 1 Oct. a6/2 It is assumed it was done by commercial fishermen fearful that the fish-eating cormorants are responsible for the decline of walleye (pickerel). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pickereln.2 Scottish. A small wading bird, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin) stint1519 dunlin1531 oxbirda1547 sea-lark1602 purre1611 ox-eye1612 jack snipe1664 spar1668 pickerel1684 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sea-snipe1767 plover's page1771 sand lark1771 red-back1813 red-backed sandpiper1813 ebb-sleeper1837 oxybird1887 simpleton1890 plover's provider1892 sand-runner1894 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 22 Avis cinerei coloris Alauda major, Rostro rubro. Aquas frequentat. Pickereldicta. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 144 Dunlin... Provincial [names].—Purre. Least Snipe. Ox-bird. Sea Snipe. Pickerel. Bull's Eye. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 193 Dunlin... Pickerel (Scotland generally). A name applied to all small waders. 1906 J. A. Harvie-Brown Fauna Tay Basin & Strathmore 295 ‘Pickerell’ became the common designation of most of the small waders—generically—in local acceptation. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 Jan. 38 A pickerel at Kinneil,..a sea mouse at Mersehead. Whatever their names.., there are 50,000 dunlin in Scotland just now. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11290n.21684 |
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