单词 | trout-haunted |
释义 | > as lemmastrout-haunted C1. attributive and in other combinations, as trout-angler, trout-angling, trout-brook, trout farm, trout-hole, trout-hook, trout-line, trout-net, trout ova, trout-pond, trout-preserve, trout-rod, trout-spawn, trout-spear, trout-stream, trout-worm; objective and objective genitive, as trout-breeder, trout-catcher, trout-fisher, trout-fishing, trout-pirate, trout-rearing, trout-tickler; also trout-coloured, trout-famous, trout-haunted adjs.; trout-like adj. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Fuscina..a troute speare, an yele speare. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 163v Speares..lyke vnto troute speares or yele speares. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 213 Kennet, whose Trowt-famous Drift..by Hungerford doth hasten. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 35 A greenish eye, a trout-nose, a great mouth. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 126 I shall tel you a little more of Trout fishing before I speak of the Salmon. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 128 In Hamp-shire..they use to catch Trouts in the night by the light of a Torch or straw, which when they have discovered, they strike with a Trout spear. View more context for this quotation 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 140 [These] may be stiled the Trout-kind. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Trout-coloured (spoken of Horses) is White speckled with Spots of Black, Bay, or Sorrel, particularly about the Head and Neck. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xii. 271 It is placed among Meadows washed by a clear Trout Stream. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 15 Oh! clear as a trout-stream. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 4 A narrow vale, through which runs a trout stream. 1807 Salmagundi 2 June 222 Trout-fishing was my uncle's favourite sport. 1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) ii. 11 He [the peacock red worm] is a good trout-worm. 1839 Spirit of Times 15 June 170/3 Surely a trout rod of fourteen ounces is not likely to fatigue (by the difference of weight in ash and willow) in the last hours of fishing. 1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/1 Get a couple of dozen of trout hooks of assorted sizes. 1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/2 They know every trout hole or deer stand within twenty miles. 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. 189 A scow, chiefest for a trout-pond. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 78 They can be caught with small trout hooks, carefully baited. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 323 Trout-fishers from distant cities had arrived before us. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 327 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV I hatched about five hundred thousand trout last season, and sold about five hundred thousand impregnated trout spawn. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 328 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A fountain capable of filling constantly a two-inch pipe will sustain a trout preserve which may prove a source of pleasure and profit. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 337 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Experimental and initiatory practice in trout-rearing is becoming common upon Long Island. 1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing I. i. 9 His gun, and a trout-rod, and some other things. 1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 199 The swan is a well-known trout-pirate. 1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 7 By the side of a trout-haunted stream. 1887 in W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) II. 509 A trout pond formed the boundary. 1894 Field 9 June 833/3 Fine trout given our society by Mr. A., the trout breeder. 1897 Outing 30 324/2 In this place one can..trace..the trout-brook to its source. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 185 The Portuguese peasant lads are expert trout-ticklers. 1904 Pilot Apr. 330/1 It is clear..that the really desirable requies senectæ will be afforded by a trout farm. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 14/3 The appearance of the may~fly..is eagerly looked forward to every year by the trout-angler. 1910 H. T. Sheringham in Encycl. Brit. II. 28/2 [article Angling] Grayling injure a trout stream by devouring trout-ova and trout-food. 1936 Discovery Feb. 43/1 It is common knowledge to most trout-fishers that the May Fly has steadily decreased over many parts of the country in recent years. < as lemmas |
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