单词 | roach fish |
释义 | > as lemmasroach fish 1. A freshwater cyprinid fish, Rutilus rutilus, which is common in the rivers of Eurasia, and has a deep body with orange-red anal and pelvic fins and red eyes. Also (chiefly Irish English): the similar rudd, R. erythrophthalmus. Formerly also † roach fish.blue, sea-roach: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus rutilus (roach) roacha1425 red fish1763 bait-fish1799 skelly1846 pearlfish1905 a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 106 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 121 Take roches, hole tenches, and plays & smyte hem to gobettes. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 451 (MED) Frie roches and loches and soles, or other gode fyssh, and do thi sause above. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 21 Take Trowtys, Rochys..an make hem clene. ?c1450 in L. Wright Sources London Eng. (1996) 90 No none Roches betwene the xv dayes tofore the day of Seynt Mark and xv days after. c1500 Ffor to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 376 Roches in sotelte, Playce in sotelte. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 173v Some agayne delight in both [sc. stony and muddy places], as the Pyke..and the Roach. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Piota,..a kind of roch fish. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. i. 163 Of fishes you shall find in Armes..the Trout, Barbel, Turbot, Herring, Roach. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 206 I might now tell you how to catch Roch and Dace. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 336/1 He beareth Azure, a Roch, proper... It is more generally termed a Roch fish, or a Rochett, or Rochell. a1745 J. Swift Printer sent to Newgate in Wks. (1746) VIII. 336 If a Gudgeon meet a Roach He dare not venture to approach. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 56 The Roach is as foolish as the carp is crafty. 1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) III. 195 The Roach..is found chiefly in deep still rivers, where it is often seen in large shoals. 1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xvi. 170 No fish thrives better in confinement, or breeds more rapidly than the roach. 1915 M. A. Luck Belgian Cook Bk. 6 This is an essentially Flemish soup. One uses carp, eels, tench, roach, perches, barbe[l]. 1960 Times 13 Feb. 9/4 Clean gravel-bottomed reaches..will also yield good quality roach. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. Roach, a fish: the rudd, Scardinius erythropthalmus. 2008 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 31 Oct. 44 Charlie Halfhide fished peg 14 for a large mixed bag of roach and skimmers. < as lemmas |
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