Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local English name of the turbot, Psetta maxima.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
fish of theturbot kind; thebrill .
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