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▪ I. rawn Sc. and north. dial.|rɔːn|
Also 8 raan, 9 raun, (roan), ran.
[Of Scand. origin, = Da. ravn roe; the relationship of this to Da. rogn, ON. hrogn (see roe) is obscure.]
The roe of a fish; a female fish. rawn-fleuk, the turbot.
1483Cath. Angl. 301/1 Rawne of a fysche, lectis. 1584Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) 343 The heiring to be callour slayne..having heid and taill with melt and rawne. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 78 Evin so of rawnis do mightie fishes breid. 1785Hutton Bran New Wark 85 An unshot codfish hes maar raans in its belly than thare be people on the face of the earth. 1810Neill List of Fishes 12 (Jam.) Turbot... This species is here commonly denominated the rawn-fleuk, from its being thought best for the table when in rawn or roe. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. vi, The water being in..rare trim for the saumon raun. 1877Holderness Gloss. s.v., ‘Melts an rauns’, male and female fish.
Hence rawned a., full of roe (Jam.); ˈrawner, a female salmon, spec. one which has not spawned at the proper time.
1808–25Jamieson. 1901Dundee Adv. 26 Feb. 6 The fish was found to be unspawned, or what is known on the Tay as a ‘rawner’, and deemed an illegal fish to take.
▪ II. rawn
dial. variant of rowen. |