单词 | herringer |
释义 | herringern. 1. (a) One who goes herring-fishing. (b) A boat used in herring-fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for herring herring-mana1568 herringer1857 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iv. 80 A lot of long-shore merchant-skippers and herringers, who went about calling themselves captains. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 May 11/2 We are not going to ride to a mile and a half of netting, like a herringer of the Minch. 2. A herring-gull. ΚΠ 1928 E. Selous Thought-transference in Birds (1931) 132 The great mass of these gulls were black-headed ones, but a certain number of herringers were intermingled with them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1857 |
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