† huddonn.
Scottish and northern. Obsolete.
A whale, or large kind of whale.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
huddon?c1370
whirlpoolc1450
thirlepollc1460
physeter1581
whirl-about1605
whirl-whale1606
thurlhead1610
black whale1615
blackfish1688
bonefish1752
pollack1774
Algerine1849
sea-boar1859
oil-butt1937
?c1370 John of Bridlington in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 196 Et grandia cete, Anglice hodones [printed hodoves].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 137 Hir hynd partis ar als grete, wele nere, As bene ane heiddyous huddoun, or a quhale.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. iv. 132 The remanent straucht like a fischis taill, In simylitude of huddoun or a quhaill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.?c1370