单词 | pogy |
释义 | pogyn. U.S. regional. a. A menhaden (genus Brevoortia).Recorded earliest in pogy boat n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden) old wife1585 yellowtaila1622 whiting1735 shadine1782 hardhead1792 menhaden1792 mossbunker1792 bony fish1815 pauhagen1833 pogy1840 green-tailed shad1884 schoolie1891 1840 N.-Y. Mirror 5 Sept. 87/2 Perhaps we may all of us live to see a Paulding paugy boat. 1846 W. Whitman in Brooklyn Evening Star 23 Jan. in Coll. Writings (1998) I. 246 As to clams and poggies, we are not a bit ashamed of 'em. 1859 4th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 182 Pogies will be caught for the chum and not for the oil. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 385 North of Cape Cod the name Pogy is almost universally in use, while in southern New England the fish is known only as the menhaden. 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Pogies, or menhaden, are good only for their oil and fish-meal content. 1978 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 4 Aug. 16/3 They [sc. bluefish] will jump on live poggies about as fast as you can put them over the side. 1994 Cape Cod Outdoors Summer 25/3 Other predators, such as bass and bluefish, will likely make do with whatever else is handy—herring, pogies, squid and the like. b. Any of various large surfperches, esp. the redtail surfperch, Amphistichus rhodoterus, of the Pacific coast. ΚΠ 1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 276 On the coast of Oregon the large species [of the surf-fish family] (especially Damalichthys argyrosomus) are called ‘Pogy’ or ‘Porgee’, in allusion to their undoubted resemblance to the scup or porgee of the East. 1900 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 8 Mar. 8/2 Each guest was given a card with a list of fish caught from the ocean pier, or in the vicinity, cooked to order for breakfast..Spanish mackerel, mullet, perch, poggies, [etc.]. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 235 An' we used to go out on the Rock Wall an' catch pogies an' rock cod. 1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 10 Aug. 3 Millions of pogies, a type of Pacific perch, have been killed by a mysterious shortage of oxygen in the water. Compounds C1. pogy boat n. ΚΠ 1840 [see sense a]. 1995 P. Jenkins Along Edge of Amer. xli. 273 I rumbled out of the port of Cameron along with the pogy boats, which were headed out for their day of fishing. pogy fisherman n. ΚΠ 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Newspaper ads would be tried tomorrow to see whether enough trained pogy-fishermen are available in this area. 1993 Canad. Press (Nexis) 16 Sept. Pogy fishermen and dealers said they had a dismal season this year, with catches down about 80 per cent. pogy steamer n. ΚΠ 1913 Oysterman & Fisherman 10 July 31/1 The new pogy steamer E. B. Thomas the largest ever built for the menhaden fishing industry made her official trip off Portland Monday. 1914 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 9 Nov. Some arrangement has been made with the fishermen of the pogy steamers who were stranded at Portsmouth. C2. pogy-catcher n. a boat or contrivance used in fishing for menhaden. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pogy-catcher..a sailing vessel or steamer employed in the capture of menhaden. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians ii. 272 A trap for menhaden fishing is known as pogy-catcher. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > remains after extraction of animal or fish oil pomacec1450 scraps1631 fenks1820 pogy chum1858 1858 2nd Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1857 i. 69 The fish known as menhaden, and often called..‘poggies’, are..pressed..to extract an oil..what remains after extracting the oil, is called ‘poggy chum’. 1879 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 8 May 7 He has money and has bought guano, phosphate, pogy-chum or fish-scrap. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pogy-gull..a sea-gull found at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oil-press or -mill pressour1348 press1373 oil mill?1440 oil pressc1720 wedge-press1844 pogy-press1880 1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 349/1 A cast-off ‘pogy’-press..had been piled upon an old wharf. pogy seiner n. a boat used in fishing for menhaden with a seine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for other species of fish salmon coble1786 haker1856 swordfisherman1885 tuna boat1903 tuna clipper1929 tunnyman1930 tunny boat1934 pogy seiner1949 1949 Sun (Baltimore) 29 July 2/1 Owners of the Virginia Pogy-Seiner Pluck today planned to advertise for a crew of licensed Maine fishermen. 1998 Boston Globe (Nexis) 9 Sept. 1 We've got these big herring and pogie seiners off the coast, and they just really do a number on the baitfish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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