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Definition of Burbots
1. burbot [n] - See also: burbot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burbots
Literary usage of Burbots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Cook, English and Foreign: Containing a Great Variety of Old by Joseph Bregion, Anne Miller (1845)
"... and a plate of livers of burbots (lottes) disgorged and boiled in ... which boil
for ten minutes; add six livers of burbots, six roes of carp, ..."
2. Select Translations from Old English Prose by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1908)
"Eels and pike, minnows and burbots, trout and lampreys, and whatever swims in
the rushing stream. Teacher. Why do you not fish in the sea ? ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... the last containing the burbots and the lings. Besides the cod, the haddock,
whiting, pollack, and ling are the leading representatives of the family. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"... perches, roaches, burbots, and lampreys, which we call water- snakes, are
taken, and sometimes l*icii together with the royal fish the sturgeon. ..."
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