Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salmon of the first year; a smolt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The parr.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
parr ; a youngsalmon .
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Winchester, or the Thames about Windsor, a little trout called samlet, or skegger trout (in both which places I have caught twenty or forty at a standing), that will bite as fast and as freely as minnows; these be by some taken to be young salmon; but in those waters they never grow to be bigger than a herring.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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