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单词 sand-eel
释义

sand-eeln.

Forms: Also Middle English sandel, Middle English sandhell, Middle English sawndel, 1500s sand el.
Etymology: < sand n.2 + eel n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsand-eel.
1. A fish of the genus Ammodytes, having a slender, cylindrical, silvery body resembling that of an eel.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Ammodytoidei ( sand-lances) > member of genus Ammodytes (sand-eel)
sand-eel1307
sandlingc1440
smould1605
lant1620
launce1623
ammodyte1698
sand-launce1776
gibbin1798
wriggle1816
1307 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 3 In c de makerell,..cccc di. merling. et sandelis.
1338 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 35 In Sandhells empt. pro familia die Veneris, 14d.
1425–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 620 Et de 3s. 4d. rec. pro tractatu de Sandeelez.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 441/1 Sandel, or sandelynge, fische, auguilla arenalis.
c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) Sawndel, or sawndelynge.
1558 G. Rondelet Gesner's Historia Animalium iv. 1260 De Ammodyte pisce, vt nos vocauimus, pro Anglico Sandilz.]
1671 J. Ray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2276 Those little long fishes, which our Fishermen dig out of the Sands at low water, and therefore call in some places Sand-Eeles.
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LIX Brasil Sand Eel... About 9 Inches long; very good Meat.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 550 The ‘Sand-eels’ or ‘Launces’ (Ammodytes) are extremely common on sandy shores of Europe and North America.
2. New Zealand. The fish Gonorhynchus greyi.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.

Derivatives

ˈsand-eeling n. fishing for sand-eels.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for eels in specific manner
bobbing1620
sniggling1661
pitching1674
eeling1780
sand-eeling1862
sun spearing1865
stichering1872
blobbing1877
eel-picking1883
eel-spearing1883
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 212 Sand-eeling at midnight..is one of the amusements of all classes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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