| 单词 | baggit |
| 释义 | baggit|ˈbægɪt|
Also baggot.
[? f. baggit, Sc. form of bagged (sense 1): cf. Holland Pliny (1634) I. 303, of conies.]
An unbroken female salmon, one that has not shed its eggs when the spawning season is over (as distinct from a kelt or spent fish).
1848W. & R. Chambers Information I. 687 Adult fish having spawned..are then termed kelts; the male fish is sometimes also called a kipper, and the female a shedder or baggit. 1863H. C. Pennell Angler-nat. 267 Kippers, and..Baggits—names by which they are frequently mentioned in Acts of Parliament. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. v. iv. §9 Baggits generally descend the stream..when hooked. 1887F. Day Brit. & Irish Salmonidæ 98 The first decision respecting which is ‘clean’ or ‘unclean’ salmon was given in December, 1885, by Mr. Fowler, who considered that a ‘baggit’, or gravid but unspawned fish, comes under the term ‘unclean’. 1931W. J. M. Menzies Salmon (ed. 2) ii. 39 A few female fish may be found very late in the season..full of unshed ova. Such fish are usually described as ‘baggots’ or ‘rawners’. 1963Times 26 Jan. 11/4 On Tweed they [sc. unspawned salmon] are called baggots and many hold that they are legal quarry for the spring angler... It is extraordinarily difficult to tell whether a baggot is in fact unbroken. |
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