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Definition of Eelpouts
1. eelpout [n] - See also: eelpout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eelpouts
| eelbucks eeled eeler eelfare eelfares eelier eeliest eeling eellike eelpot | eelpots eelpout eelpouts (current term) eels eelskin eelskins eelspear eelspears eelworm eelworms | eelwrack eelwracks eely een eensy eentsy eeny |
Literary usage of Eelpouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the Crusades: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of by Richard, Jean Joinville, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Maqrīzī (1848)
"You must know, that we ate no fish the whole Lent but eelpouts, which is a
gluttonous fish, and feeds on dead bodies. From this cause, and from the bad air ..."
2. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"... eelpouts, salmons, and carps. In all the families which occur throughout the
temperate zone, there are near relatives on the two continents, ..."
3. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia, the Frozen by Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev (1806)
"... they made openings in the ice, in order to catch eelpouts ; the largest of
which weighed 25 pounds. The cold at this time, in the middle of October, ..."
4. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1883)
"(The eelpouts.) Body elongate, more or less eel-shaped, naked or covered with
very lall, imbedded, cycloid scales; head large; mouth large, with conical eth ..."
5. English Etymology: A Select Glossary Serving as an Introduction to the by Friedrich Kluge, Frederick Lutz (1898)
"... 'eelpouts'); cp. DU.putt a kind offish. The word is derived from the vb.
pout (TEOT.y~/z?/): the fish has its name from its pouting lips. powder sb. ..."
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