英语词汇“twaite”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

twaite

释义

▪ I. twait
var. of thwaite; obs. f. twat.
▪ II. twait, twaite local.|tweɪt|
Forms: 7 tweat, thwait, 9 twayt, thwaite, 8– twait, twaite.
[Origin not ascertained.]
A European species of shad, Alosa finta. Also attrib. twait shad.
1613J. Dennys Secr. Angling ii. xlii, The Shad..The Bocher sweet, the pleasant Flounder thin, The Peele, the Tweat, the Botling, and the rest.c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1885) III. 319, 53. sorts of sea fish... The turbut, Lamprey, Lamperne, Shad, tweat.1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 325/1 The Shad, Thwait, Plaice, and Flou[n]der have the greatest love for Salt, or Brackish Waters, which ebb and flow.1769Pennant Zool. III. 298 The variety [of the Shad] called near Gloucester the Twaite.1882Standard 2 Mar. 2/8 Two species which ascend certain streams..about the month of May—..the Twait shad and the Allice shad.1904W. M. Gallichan Fishing Spain 168 The two kinds of shad of our coast are known as the twaite and the allice.

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