单词 | courge |
释义 | courgen. A basket, towed behind a fishing-boat, for holding live bait. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > basket for live-bait courge1865 1865 J. C. Wilcocks Sea-fisherman 45 Manufacture of ‘cou [r] ges’ or Sand Eel baskets. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 321/2 The ‘courge’, a torpedo-shaped basket into which the baits are introduced by an aperture that is closed with a bung. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 322/2 The orthodox Channel Islands ‘courge’. 1900 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 626 We have lively sand-eels towing in the courge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865 |
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