Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
trout .
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Examples
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But in a practical sense, the world has changed from Perry's alder-tangled brook-trout stream.
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But numerous small streams and lakes hold brookies that under Colorado's generous brook-trout bag limit beg to be eaten.
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Around noontime you'd stop, eat your sandwich, drink from a spring-fed brook-trout stream, and munch a wild apple or pear.
Five Aces 2002
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Around noontime you'd stop, eat your sandwich, drink from a spring-fed brook-trout stream, and munch a wild apple or pear.
Five Aces 2002
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They are handsome and active fish, lighter in color than the brook-trout, with silvery sides and belly.
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Into Gaspé Bay flow the Dartmouth, the York and the St. John -- good salmon-rivers, while both they and the smaller streams abound with sea-trout and brook-trout.
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Though this fish is not really a trout but a char I have included it among trout, because it is so very generally known to fishermen as the American brook-trout.
Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker
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In all there were ten specimens of salmon, sea-trout and brook-trout mounted and we found no great difficulties.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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Mr. Hallock asserts that _Salmo Sebago_ is a monster brook-trout, like those of the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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Sault, or, better still, cooked fresh from the icy waters on the rocky shores of Superior, it is, to our thinking, the best fish that swims, -- better than the true salmon or brook-trout.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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