| 释义 |
† birt, burt Obs.
Forms: 6 birte, byrte, burte, 7 byrt, berte, 6–8 birt, burt.
[Derivation and etymological form uncertain: written also brit(e, brut, brytte, bret, q.v. Cotgrave has ‘bertonneau a bret or turbot. Norman.’ This may be related.]
A fish identified with the Turbot.
1552Huloet, Byrte, fyshe, rhombus. 1573in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. I. 362 Item, for a burte..3s. 8d...for two brites..6s. 1620Venner Via Recta iv. 74 Turbut or Birt is meetly pleasant to the taste. 1678R. Holme in Babees Bk. (1868) 157 note, He beareth Azure a Birte (or Burt, or Berte). 1706Phillips, Bret, Brut, or Burt, a Fish of the Turbot-kind. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) ii, Rhombus, a fish called a birt, or turbot. |