leervisn.
/ˈlɪəvᵻs/, /ˈlɪəfᵻs/, U.S. /ˈlɪrvəs/, /ˈlɪrfəs/, South African English /ˈlɪəfəs/ South African.
= leerfish n.
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1853 L. Pappe Synopsis Edible Fishes Cape Good Hope 24 Lichia Amia, Cuv. & Val. (Leervisch.)..Taken occasionally in Table Bay, but not in great repute, its flesh being deemed dry and rather insipid.
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony 156 Lichia amia L... Leer-visch; Leather-fish; Garrick (Natal).
1945 Cape Argus 27 Jan. Many leervis, kob and yellowtail have fallen for spoons, spinners and wobblers of many kinds.
1951 Cape Times 13 Nov. 2/3 Anglers know Swartvlei as a place where the sporting leervis abounds.
1953 J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. (rev. ed.) 222 The Leervis always seizes a fish across the middle and then works it about in the jaws until head-on for easy swallowing.
1956 Cape Times 2 Mar. 2/5 He caught a 32-lb. leervis near the lighthouse at Cape Agulhas.
1974 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 1 Aug. 21 In mid-December..leervis were caught in large numbers off the breakwater.
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