| 单词 | sprat fishing |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprat fishing C1. General attributive and objective, as sprat boat, sprat catcher, sprat fishing, sprat net, sprat season, etc. ΚΠ 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 70. 554 A York shire Bumkin..residing in Watling-street (but not many moneths since a Sprat-Merchant in Middlebrough). 1669 W. Wycherley Hero & Leander in Burlesque 3 He was a Sprat-catcher, or good Eele-bobber. 1702 T. Brown tr. G. B. Gelli Circe i. 22 I have..left the company of a Sprat-catcher, to fall into the Hands of a Plough-jobber. 1800 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 10 Feb. Were you ever at Billinsgate [sic] on a night of the Sprat season? 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 277/1 Sprat-fishing commences in the early part of November. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xix. §3799 Mackerel, herring, pilchard, and sprat nets. 1935 Mariner's Mirror 21 6 An Aldeburgh sprat boat of sound pedigree. 1969 Mariner's Mirror 55 412 The ‘crook’, a kind of boathook..was used for getting in sprat nets. 2013 Baltic News Service (Nexis) 11 June As Estonia's sprat fishing quota is insufficient several Estonian companies are operating in Finland. < as lemmas |
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