单词 | brandling |
释义 | brandlingn. 1. A worm of a red colour variegated with rings or bands of brighter colouring, used as bait by anglers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Oligochaeta > family Lumbricidae > member of genus Eisenia brandling1653 1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 3 The red knotted worme is very good where Brandlins are not to be had. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 94 For a Brandling, hee is usually found in an old dunghil. View more context for this quotation 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. ii. 260 The Brandlings are generally found in Cow or Hog's Dung. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 274 A gudgeon being incapable of refusing a lively young brandling. 1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 264 The brandling and gilt tail are excellent bait for Perch. 2. dialect. A local name of the salmon parr; formerly regarded as a species of trout. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr graveling1587 pinka1641 tecon1653 fingering1686 brandling1754 laspring1760 parr1771 wrack-rider1794 salmon pink1805 fingerling1829 farthing-trout1865 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. vi. 145 A little Trout..called in the North of England a Branlin. 1802 J. Wilson MS Let. to J. Boucher Brandling, a small Trout. Cumb. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 68 The Salmon..From one to two years old, before it has gone to the sea, it is known as a parr, pink, smolt, smelt, salmon-fry, sprag, or salmon-spring, samlet, brandling, fingerling, etc., etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † brandlingadj. Obsolete. Tottering, unsteady, wavering. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Branslant, brandling..reeling, staggering, wauering. 1693 Introd. Breviary Hist. Eng. 36 Before the settling of the Government whilest it was new and brandling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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