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▪ I. bret, n.|brɛt|
Also 6 brytte, brite, brette, 6–7 brit, 7–8 brut, 5– brett.
[Derivation and etymological form uncertain: written also bert, burt, byrte, birt q.v.]
†1. The name of a fish, identified in some places with the Brill, in others with the Turbot; = birt.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 852 in Babees Bk. (1868) 175 Lynge, brett & fresche turbut. 1555Eden Dec. W. Ind. (Arb.) 297 Hearynges, coddes, haddockes and brettes. 1570Levins Manip. 148 A Brit, fish, rhombus. 1601J. Theyer Dutch Fishing in Phenix I. 228 All along the Coast of England..are innumerable shoals..of..Scate, Brett, Gurnet, Turbutt. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey iv. iii. 63 Sturgion, Turbot, Porpuis, Seale, Bret, Tunie. 1611Cotgr., Bertonneau, a bret, or Turbot. 1671Ray Corr. (1848) 94 What they call Bret in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and..in all the east part of England, is the turbut of the west country, where the name Bret is not known. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes (1859) I. 642 Another name quoted among those in use for the Brill, namely the Brett.
2. The spawn or fry of the herring; = brit.
1725Dudley in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 262 He has seen this Whale..to take in a Sort of reddish Spawn or Brett, as some call it, that..will lie upon the Top of the Water, for a Mile together. 1867F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. (1880) 308 Bret, or herring sail, on which they have been feeding.
▪ II. † bret, brit, v. Obs. or dial.
[Cf. OE. bréotan to break, bruise.]
trans. ? To bite, crop.
1578H. Wotton Courtly Controv., The young lambes..nibling and brettyng the toppes of the preatye pagles. 1864E. Capern Devon Provinc., Brit, to indent. |