单词 | winter fish |
释义 | winter fishn. In later use Scottish (now rare). Fish, esp. ling ( Molva molva) or cod ( Gadus morhua), that is dried or cured for use in winter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > molva or ling lingc1300 winter fish1343 orgays1427 ling fish1489 organ1499 drizzle1769 blue ling1902 1343–4 in C. M. Woolgar Househ. Accts. Medieval Eng. (1992) I. 231 Pur iC de dure pessoun qe est appele winturfizs xiii s. 1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 21 (MED) Pro c stoks wynterffysh, xxvj s. viij d. 1466–7 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 611 (MED) Pro iiii lastis stokfissh'..vii last wynterfissh'..xx last titlynges et croplynges. a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 17 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV (MED) Stocke fyssche dyuers sorts..There ys..somer fyssch that go ii for a fyssh and dim. att xxx s. the c; also wynter fyssh that ys a pleyne gyll fyssch for xx s. the c or undir. ?1675 W. Poole in P. E. Pope Fish into Wine (2004) ix. 338 The fish then catcht if well cured proves the best of all the yeares and is called winter fish. 1755 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. (new ed.) I. 302 Their fifth and last fare is in autumn to Isle of Sables, these are called winter fish. 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands I. 240 Ling..are known by the name of winter fish. 1867 W. H. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 735 Winter-fish, this term generally alludes to cured cod and ling. 1905 A. R. Forbes Gaelic Names Beasts 371 The ling, as is generally known, is in season during winter and spring, and a fish caught before 12th August is called a ‘winter fish’. 1989 R. A. Watt Sc. Dial. Fish & Trade Names 21 Winter fish, air dried cod. (Kincardineshire). 2004 L. Johnson in New Shetlander No. 228 31/2 A hunder an sixty-six cod dey wir gotten, a guid supply o winter fish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1343 |
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