cramp-fishn.

Etymology: < cramp n.¹ + fish n.¹: compare Dutch kram-visch torpedo (Kilian).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcramp-fish.

The electric ray or torpedo, also called cramp-ray and numb-fish.

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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Torpedinidae (electric ray)

torpedo?1527

cramp-fish1591

numbfish1711

numbing fish1748

cramp-ray1769

electric ray1774

torpedo-ray1804

torpedo-fish1825

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Torpigo A crampfish, Torpedo.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C5^v And like the Cramp-fish darts..His slie insinuating poysonous iuice.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. v. 19 That Palsey which is caught by touching of the Torpedo or Cramp-fish.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 384 The Torpedo or Cramp-fish..by his frigidity he benums such fish as swim over or lodge near him, and so preys upon them.

1773 Grant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 468 The general name by which they are known here, is the Numb or Cramp-fish.

figurative.1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 76 He cannot even tell what it is,—this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	cramp-fish
释义	cramp-fishn. Etymology: < cramp n.¹ + fish n.¹: compare Dutch kram-visch torpedo (Kilian).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcramp-fish. The electric ray or torpedo, also called cramp-ray and numb-fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Torpedinidae (electric ray) torpedo?1527 cramp-fish1591 numbfish1711 numbing fish1748 cramp-ray1769 electric ray1774 torpedo-ray1804 torpedo-fish1825 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Torpigo A crampfish, Torpedo. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C5^v And like the Cramp-fish darts..His slie insinuating poysonous iuice. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. v. 19 That Palsey which is caught by touching of the Torpedo or Cramp-fish. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 384 The Torpedo or Cramp-fish..by his frigidity he benums such fish as swim over or lodge near him, and so preys upon them. 1773 Grant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 468 The general name by which they are known here, is the Numb or Cramp-fish. figurative.1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 76 He cannot even tell what it is,—this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1591
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