Trout
[traʊt]
Definition
(noun.) any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons.
(noun.) flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes.
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Definition
(n.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.
(n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.
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Definition
n. a common name for fresh-water fish of the genus Salmo: the Salmo Fario Trutta or Common Trout much sought after by anglers.—n. Trout′-bas′ket an osier or willow creel for carrying trout.—adj. Trout′-col′oured speckled like a trout: white with spots of black bay or sorrel.—ns. Trout′-farm a place where trout are reared artificially; Trout′let Trout′ling a little trout; Trout′-rod a fishing-rod for trout; Trout′-spoon a small revolving spoon used as a lure for trout; Trout′-stream a stream in which trout are caught.
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To dream of seeing trout, is significant of growing prosperity. To eat some, denotes that you will be happily conditioned. To catch one with a hook, foretells assured pleasure and competence. If it falls back into the water, you will have a short season of happiness. To catch them with a seine, is a sign of unparalleled prosperity. To see them in muddy water shows that your success in love will bring you to grief and disappointments.
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Examples
- There are walks you can take and you can troll for trout in the lake. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The trout in the neighbourhood Charles thought too small; so others, of a larger size, were to be sent from Valladolid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If we go to the Sierra de Gredos after this of the bridge there are fine streams there for trout and for crayfish also. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I pulled and felt the live weight of the trout and then the line throbbed again. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Bless you, Casaubon has got a trout-stream, and does not care about fishing in it himself: could there be a better fellow? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You seem one of the jolly sort--looks as conwivial as a live trout in a lime basket,' added Mr. Weller, in an undertone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was a chance to fight, an opportunity to loot, and they rose to the bait as a speckled trout to a fly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As he looked a trout rose for some insect and made a circle on the surface close to where the chip was turning. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I could hardly have seen the trout themselves at that distance in the open air. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At Capracotta, he had told me, there were trout in the stream below the town. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I speak of the north shore of Tahoe, where one can count the scales on a trout at a depth of a hundred and eighty feet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Only Robert Jordan stood looking across the high mountain meadow with the trout brook running through it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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