twaittwaiten.
/tweɪt/ local.
A European species of shad, Alosa finta. Also attributive twait shad.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad) > alosa finta (twait shad)
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a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. xlii. sig. D2 The Shad..The Bocher sweet, the pleasant Flounder thin, The Peele, the Tweat, the Botling, and the rest.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 53. sorts of sea fish... The turbut, Lamprey, Lamperne, Shad, tweat.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 The Shad, Thwait, Plaice, and Flou[n]der have the greatest love for Salt, or Brackish Waters, which ebb and flow.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 298 The variety [of the Shad] called near Gloucester the Twaite.
1882 Standard 2 Mar. 2/8 Two species which ascend certain streams..about the month of May—..the Twait shad and the Allice shad.
1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 168 The two kinds of shad of our coast are known as the twaite and the allice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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