| 释义 |
ˈshot-fare dial.
Also 8 shotver.
[Contracted from shotnet fare: see shot-net.]
A mackerel-fishing expedition (also attrib.); the mackerel season.
1736Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.), Shotver men, the mackarel fishers at Dover. a1798Pennant Journ. I. of Wight (1801) I. 137 The Shotfare season, or time of catching mackrel. 1887Kent. Gloss., Shot-fare, the mackerel season, which is the first of the two seasons of the home fishery. |