spanker-eeln.
northern dialect.
The lamprey.
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the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey)
lamprey1297
seven-eyes1496
lamprel1526
weasel1601
stone-grig1666
lamper-eel1709
lamprey-eel1726
stone-sucker1753
nine-eyed eel1811
nine-eyes1818
nine holesa1825
spanker-eel1846
seven-holes1853
petromyzontoid1861
1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3)
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 360 Lampern,..cunning, and spanker-eel, Northumberland.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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- to throw, put, one's weight behind
- to thrum buttons
- to thrum caps
- to thrust a person's nose out of joint
- to thrust a thing down a person's throat
- to thrust down a person's throat
- to thrust one's nose in
- to thrust one's nose into
- to thrust one's tongue in one's cheek
- to thrust or run one's head in a bush
- to thrust out
- to thrust, to the wall
- to thug it out
- to thumb one's nose
- to thumb the belt of
- to thump a cushion, the pulpit
- to thump down
- to thump it
- to thunder and lighten
- to thwite a mill-post etc to a pudding-prick
- to thwite a mill-post to a pudding-prick
- to thwite a millpost etc to a puddingprick
- to thwite a millpost to a puddingprick
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