单词 | capelin |
释义 | capelin, caplin|ˈkæpəlɪn, ˈkæplɪn| Also 7 capline, -ling, 7–9 capeling, 8 -elan, caplein, 9 capalan. [= Fr. capelan, caplan, Sp. capelan.] A small fish very similar to a smelt, found on the coast of Newfoundland, and much used as a bait for cod.
1620J. Mason Newfoundland 5, June hath Capline a fish much resembling Smeltes in forme and eating. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 8 The Riuers..are stored with..Launce, Capelin, Cod, and Trouts. Ibid. 89 Capeling. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Capelan. 1823in W. Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 397 Innumerable small fry slip down unperceived, like caplins down the throats of the sharks. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. i. 102 Other Gadoids..the Haddock, the Capalan. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 53 Four or five whales..were feeding upon the Capelin. |

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