lamper-eel

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• lamper-eel

  The lamprey. A common name for lampreys in New England. It is provincial in England and Scotland.--F...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Lamper eel

  ·- ·see <<Lamprey>>. ...

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• Eel

  ·noun An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to ...

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• eel

  n. The kinds present in Australia are – – Common Eel – – Anguilla australis, Richards. ♣ Conger E....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• eel

  A well-known fish (Anguilla vulgaris), of elongated form, common in rivers and estuaries, and esteem...

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• Eel-mother

  ·noun The <<Eelpout>>. ...

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• Sea eel

  ·- The conger eel. ...

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• eel-fish

  n. Plotosus tandanus,Mitchell. Called also Catfish (q.v.), and Tandan (q.v.). 1838. T. L. Mitchell...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• eel-grass

  (Zostera marina.) A plant thrown ashore in large quantities by the sea. It is also called Sea-wrack....

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• eel-spear

  A sort of trident for catching eels. ...

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• e'el-thing

  i. e. ill-thing ; St. Anthony's fire. Ex. ...

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• cold-eel

  The Gymnotus electricus. ...

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• eel-fares

  A fry or brood of eels. ...

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• eel-grass

  A name for the sea-wrack (Zostera marina); it is thrown ashore by the sea in large quantities. ...

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• eel-pout

  A name for the burbot (Molva lota), a fresh-water fish. ...

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• eel-skuyt

  See dutch eel-skuyt. ...

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• eel-spear

  A sort of trident with ten points for catching eels, called in Lincolnshire an eel-stang. ...

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• eve-eel

  A northern name for the conger; from the Danish hav-aal, or sea-eel. ...

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• ramper-eel

  A name of the lamprey, Petromyzon marinus. ...

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• salt-eel

  A rope's-end cut from the piece for starting the homo delinquens. ...

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• sea-eel

  The conger (which see). ...

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• spanker-eel

  A northern term for the lamprey. ...

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• dutch eel-skuyt

  A flat-bottomed somewhat cutter-rigged sea-boat, carrying lee-boards, fitted with two water-tight bu...

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