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单词 corpion
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corpionn.

Forms: Also corpchun, ? corphun, copshen.
Etymology: Of uncertain etymology: perhaps < corp- body: the use of les in quot. 1516 does not make it certainly French. Copshen is probably the same word, though the spelling suggests derivation < cop head.
Obsolete.
Name of a quality of herring: see quot. 1758.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of > deprived of head
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 93 Corphun [Phillipps corpchun herynge].
1512 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 322/3 Corpions 1 cade @ 4/3.
1516 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) (2011) III. 323/2 Herrings called les corpions 1 cade @ 1/4.
1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 227 Fishers distinguish their Herrings into six different Sorts: As the Fat Herring..the Shotten Herring..the Copshen, which by some Accident or other has been deprived of its Head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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