单词 | summer cock |
释义 | > as lemmassummer cock summer cock n. English regional (northern) (now historical and rare) (originally) a young salmon in a spawning ground; (in later use) a spawning male salmon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > spawning male kippera1000 red fish1425 summer cock1790 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young gilling1366 salmonet1576 springling1647 samlet1653 skegger1653 Samson1769 skirling1776 salmon sprint1790 summer cock1790 palmer trout1836 girling1861 springling1873 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Summer-cock, a young salmon at that time. York City. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 69 In Northumberland a ‘milter’ or spawning male is known as a summer-cock or gib-fish. 1909 J. A. Hutton Salmon Scales Pl. IV. (caption) Scale of a young Spring or Summer Cock fish, 12 lb., caught in the Wye. 2002 G. Frampton in P. Frank Yorks. Fisherfolk vii. 130 We shut [i.e., shot the net] off the Buoy and got fifteen or sixteen, all summercocks. < as lemmas |
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