单词 | saithe |
释义 | saithen. Scottish. The mature coal-fish. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish) lob-keelingc1325 coalfish1337 lob1357 pollack1427 gull-fish1583 saithe1632 colmey1654 billard1661 rawlin pollack1673 sey-pollack1698 blackmouth1703 billet1769 greenback1772 green cod1776 glossan1780 stenlock179. harbin1806 coalsey1829 rock salmon1831 rauning pollack1835 green pollack1859 coaly1915 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 500 Ling, Turbet and Seaths. c1680 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 248 It is called Shetland, because in old time, there were many Sheath-fish caught about its Coast. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 52 Asellus Niger, the Cole-fish of the North of England; our Fishers call it, a Colman's-Seeth. 1711 Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1880) IV. 515 There has been a trade of barrelled codd, ling, and seith fish. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 79 The fish commonly taken on this coast, are cod,..whitings, saiths or cuddies. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 397 The tenants have from their landlords..a halfpenny for a seth (colefish). 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (1841) II. 251 Among the Scotch islands the Coalfish is called Sillock,..Sethe, Sey, and Grey Lord. 1863 C. A. Johns Home Walks 114 Shoals of small fish, principally Sethe and Lythe. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxvii. 456 He proposed he should go ashore and buy a few lines with which they might fish for young saithe or lythe over the side of the yacht. 1892 Gentlew. Bk. Sport I. 67 The process of making a saithe-fly is very simple. 1895 Athenæum 14 Sept. 349/2 The angler may easily make a large catch either of mackerel or of pollack, seythe or herrings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1632 |
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