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单词 whitling
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whitlingn.

Brit. /ˈwɪtlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪtlɪŋ/
Forms: late Old English hwitling, 1500s whiddelynge, 1600s– whitling; Scottish 1700s– whitling, 1800s whiteling, 1800s whitlin.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: white adj., -ling suffix1.
Etymology: < white adj. (compare forms at that entry) + -ling suffix1. Compare Middle Low German wītling , wītlink , wittling whiting (German regional (Low German) wittling ; > German Weißling (18th cent.)), Swedish vitling (1609), Old Danish hvitling (Danish hvilling , †hvidling ). Compare whiting n.2
A sea trout, spec. one that has returned to fresh water within a year of migrating to sea. Also †whitling trout.The identity of the fish in quot. lOE is uncertain; cf. whiting n.2 1.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo eriox (bull-trout)
whitlinglOE
scurf1483
sewin1532
sullayne1570
bull-trout1653
shuin1655
sea-trout1745
truff1818
grey fin1839
swallow-smolt1847
lOE Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (St. John's Oxf. 17) in A. S. Napier Contributions to Old Eng. Lexicogr. (1906) 14 Glaucus, hwitling.
1598 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 111 For floukes and eght whiddelynges..xviijd.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 324/2 Sea-Fish, which usually come to Fresh-Rivers in spawning time; ar the Herring, Salmon, Smelt, or Sparlings: Whitlings, Aberdine, or Stock-Fish.
1769 J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumberland I. 389 The Whitling-Trout..is taken in the Till and Tweed from ten to twenty inches.
1771 D. Pickering Statutes at Large xxvii. 70 Every such person and persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings for every salmon, gilse, salmon trout, or whitling, so taken or killed.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VIII. 488 In some parts of the Ern, there are..great numbers of sea trouts... The fishermen call them whitlings.
1830 in T. Doubleday Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs (1852) 84 The Tweed, he may brag o' his sawmon, An' blaw of his whitlins the Till.
1848 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. II. 294/1 The salmon-trout, the hirling or whitling trout, and the Lochleven speckled grey trout, are indigenous in the waters of Scotland.
1873 C. Hallock Fishing Tourist i. 23 Whitling trout are to be whipped out on a twenty-feet salmon rod.
1932 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1931–2 B. 40 16 After the whitling stage the growth is slow.
1949 Illustr. London News 16 July 32 The sea-trout, also known as mort, smelt, black tail,.., sewing and whitling.
2003 D. Mills Salmon at Edge 47 Whitling are brown trout that migrate to sea and return to fresh water within the same year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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