单词 | ramper eel |
释义 | > as lemmasramper eel 1. Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern). A lamprey (family Petromyzontidae). More fully ramper eel. Now rare. ΚΠ 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 217 These spotted eels are called Rampar Eels. 1818 R. Jamieson Notes Burt's Lett. I. 122 The ramper-eel, lamprey, or nine eyes, is held in abhorrence. 1878 W. Chambers Stories Remarkable Persons 124 Among all the youngsters of the district from Howford to Peebles, Rob rendered himself famous by having caught the ramper eel, and by having skinned it too. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Ramper [N.], the lamprey. 1904 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 10 128 Boys in the country have a belief that a horse's hair placed in water for nine days turns to a ramper eel. 1988 W. A. D. Riach Galloway Gloss. 36 Ramper-eel.., a sea-lamprey. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 270/1 Ramper-eel, a fish: the sea lamprey. ramper eel ΚΠ 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 131 ‘The glutinous hag’, or, according to north-country fishermen, the ‘ramper-eel’, or ‘poison-ramper’. 1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 408 Myxine. Hagfish. Ramper eel. Poison Ramper. < as lemmas |
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