| 释义 |
Definition of kiddle in English: kiddlenoun ˈkɪd(ə)l 1A dam or other barrier in a river, with an opening fitted with nets to catch fish. Example sentencesExamples - Also a Weir in a river formed for the trapping of fish was termed in Saxon times a kiddle or kettle.
- A tenant of the manor had unlicensed oyster pits in the marsh and illegal kiddles in Roman river in 1506.
- 1.1 An arrangement of fishing nets hung on stakes along the seashore to catch fish.
Example sentencesExamples - Royal officers had the perquisite to trap fish in kiddles, but poachers often raided the traps of fish, frequently destroying the kiddles in the process.
- The former environments were characterised by the grazing of large sheep flocks, producing wool for export and for the local cloth industries of Kent and Essex, by salt-making and by fishing using large ‘kiddles’ or fish-traps.
Origin Middle English: from Old French quidel. Rhymes fiddle, griddle, Liddell, middle, piddle, riddle, twiddle |