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单词 spout whale
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spout whale
spout whale n. [compare Dutch regional (Flanders) †spuyt-wal] Scottish Obsolete the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.
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a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 14 Many Spout Whales or Pellacks..sometime run in great numbers upon the shore and are taken.
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland iv. 48 There are likewise a great number of little Whales,..which they call spout-Whales or Pellacks.
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 290 There were..two purpoises or spout whailes that ran up the River of Ness..where they were killed.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 90 The porpoise..follows the herrings, and is sometimes caught in the turbot nets: as does likewise the spout-whale.
1912 M. T. Daviess Melting of Molly vii. 164 You showed me them pictures of spout whales in a book.
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