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porgo, pargo
[a. Sp. and Pg. pargo, app.:—L. pagrus a kind of fish.]
A fish; the sea bream.
1557W. Towrson in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 113 We found there certain Caruels fishing for Pargoes. 1616Capt. Smith Descr. New Eng. 12, 40 or 50 Saile yearely to Cape⁓blank, to hooke for Porgos, Mullet, and [to] make Puttardo. 1624― Virginia 227 The Duke of Medina receiueth yeerely tribute of the Fishers, for Tunny, Mullit, and Porgos, more then ten thousand pounds. [a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts vi. (1704) 532/1 Porgus, somewhat like to an over-grown Sea-Bream, but much bigger.] 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xv. (Roxb.) 40/1 Fish hookes for Porgos, Bonettos or dorados. 1902Jordan & Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 405 The Snappers, or Pargos, genus Lutjanus..species very numerous, Asiatic, American, or African. |