| 单词 | square flipper |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquare flipper square flipper n. [apparently a folk etymologizing of Newfoundland dialect fipper, fripper, etc. (also used), of uncertain origin] the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, native to Arctic regions. ΚΠ 1774 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 12 Dec. (1792) II. 38 A squarephripper was caught in a net to-day. 1784 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. i. 161 The Seal-hunters in Newfoundland have a large kind, which they call the Square Phipper, and say weighs five hundred pounds. 1832 J. McGregor Brit. Amer. I. 108 The harp seal..the hooded seal..the square flipper, the blue seal, and the jar seal. 1842 J. B. Jukes Excurs. Newfoundland I. 312 The ‘square fipper’..is, however, very rare. 1861 L. De Boilieu Recoll. Labrador Life 91 These seals are not like the Square Frippers. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 173 Hooded or Bladder Nose... Square Flipper. 1884 J. A. Allen in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 65 (note) The Bay Seal,..the Hooded Seal,..and the ‘Square Flipper’ (probably Halichærus grypus). 1911 D. M. Lindsay Voy. Arctic iii. 39 Square flippers..are also found on the coast [of Newfoundland]. 1957 Beaver Spring 49/1 They were immensely strong and could carry off a square-flipper seal single-handed. < as lemmas |
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