troutingn.
/ˈtraʊtɪŋ/ a. Fishing for trout, trout-fishing.
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a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. ix. §13 Depriving him of the pleasure of trouting.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 144 The game was plenty, and the trouting in the brook such as had been represented by advertisement.
b. attributive.
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1803 Gazetteer Scotl. Venny or Finny, a small rivulet of Angus-shire,..is a fine trouting-stream.
1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 64 A trouting-rod is usually made from twelve to fifteen feet.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 176 Salmon Lines, Deep Sea Lines, Trouting Lines.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 3/3 The one good trouting loch in Scotland is Loch Leven.
c. as present participle (chiefly after go).
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1838 T. Hood Rise at Father of Angling in Comic Ann. 52 Sham flies to go trolling and trouting.
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iii. 181 The loneliness of Izaak Walton trouting in a secluded glen.
1899 Q. Rev. Jan. 88 At Villeneuve he goes trouting in the dark with the servant of the inn.
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