Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A viviparous fish, Zoarces viviparus, of an elongated eel-like form, often confounded with the eel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The eelpout.
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Examples
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An eel-mother and her son were lying at the bottom of the sea, close to the landing-stage, watching a young fisherman getting ready his line.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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When the eel-mother and all the rest of them returned, they found that it had undergone a change.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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First it sounded as if sixty piles of wood were all being sawn at the same time; then a cleft opened in the water which went down to the bottom of the sea, and there, wedged between three stones, stood a black box, which sang and played and tinkled and jingled, close to the eel-mother and her son, who hastily disappeared in the lowest depths of the ocean.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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The eel-mother was the first to put in an appearance.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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But they went too far; and of eight daughters only three came back to the eel-mother, and these wept and said, 'We only went a little way before the door, and the ugly eel spearer came directly, and stabbed five of our party to death.'
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840
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'They will come again,' still persisted the eel-mother.
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On leaving the sand-hills, they passed over heaths and boggy lands, until they came to the green meadows where Skjærumaa winds its way -- the river with the numerous eels, where the eel-mother with her daughters lived, those whom the cruel man speared and cut in pieces, though there were men who had scarcely treated their fellow-men better.
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He also wished to go "a little way up the stream" -- that is to say, to go away in a ship to see the world -- and his mother said as the eel-mother had done.
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"Just look at him!" said the eel-mother, "there you have an example of the malice and cunning of the world ....
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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"Out in the rivulet dwelt eels, and the eel-mother said to her daughters, when they begged to be allowed to go a little way alone up the stream.
hernesheir commented on the word eel-mother
Thanks ruzuzu, for adding eel-mother to my list of things eel!
May 3, 2012