spurlingn.1
? Obsolete.
The smelt or spirling, Osmerus eperlanus. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > [noun] > family Osmeridae(smelts) > osmerus eperlanus (smelt)
smeltc725
sprotOE
sparling1307
spirlingc1425
spurlinga1471
prim1668
spirinchea1682
a1471 in N. F. Hele Aldeburgh (1870) vi. 65 Every boat..going to fishing for sperling in spurling tyme.
1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes ii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 20 A pennie-worthe of chese, and halfe a score spurlinges.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13 All Saints doe laie..for sprats and spurlings, for their house.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 100 Here swimmes the Shad, the Spitfish, and the Spurling.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 169 Spurlings are but broad Sprats, taken chiefly upon our Northern coast.
1844 Peter Parley's Ann. 123 The little smelts or spurlings run up the softened rivers to spawn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
spurlingadj.2
/ˈspəːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspərlɪŋ/ Nautical.
Only in compounds:
a. spurling gate n. (see quot. 1927).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > chain pipe
navel pipe1882
chain pipe1883
spurling gate1927
spurling pipe1962
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 169/2 Spurling gate, the iron casting set in the deck through which the anchor chain passes.
1938 F. A. Worsley First Voy. in Square-rigged Ship 217 The spurlingate pipes were now uncovered and the ends of the chain cables roused up.
b. spurling pipe n. (see quot. 1962). Cf. spurling-line n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > chain pipe
navel pipe1882
chain pipe1883
spurling gate1927
spurling pipe1962
1962 A. G. Course Dict. Naut. Terms 186 Spurling pipe, the pipe that encloses the anchor cable from windlass to cable locker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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