| 单词 |
mossbunker |
| 释义 |
mossbunker|ˈmɒsbʌŋkə(r)|
Forms: 8 mosbanker, 8–9 mossbonker, 9 mossbanker; 9 (in Du. form) marshbanker; (in mod. Dicts. massbanker, marshbunker, morsebonker, morsbunker, mousebunker); 9– mossbunker.
[a. Du. marsbanker (formerly also masbank), of obscure etymology.]
The menhaden.
1792[see menhaden]. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 222 Mossbonker. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 264 A huge moss-bonker. 1868W. Whitman Poems, Salut au monde 145, I see ten fishermen waiting—they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the joined sein-ends in the water. 1880Günther Fishes 659 The ‘Mossbanker’, common on the Atlantic coasts of the United States. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. I. 569 This name [Mossbunker]..[has] evidently been transferred from the ‘Scad’, or ‘Horse Mackerel’..known to the Hollanders as the ‘Marshbanker’ [1888 ― Amer. Fishes 386 ‘Marsbanker’]. New Jersey uses the New York name with its local variations, such as ‘Bunker’ and ‘Marshbanker’.
attrib.1881N.Y. Times in Goode Amer. Fishes (1888) 112 These smacks are engaged in the menhaden or ‘mossbunker’ fishery. |
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