单词 | rouding time |
释义 | rouding timen. English regional (Norfolk). Now rare. Spawning time. ΚΠ 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads & Rivers xviii. 118 At the ‘rouding’ or spawning time of the bream and the roach, they crowded on to the Broad from the river in such immense numbers that the water was a moving mass of fish. 1885 G. C. Davies in H. Cholmondeley-Pennell et al. Fishing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. 362 Some idea of the abundance of the fish may be gathered by a visit to one of the shallower Broads at ‘rouding’ time—that is, when the fish are spawning in the spring. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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