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Furness Dialect Dictionary
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Furness Dialect Dictionary
Fish
Some fish
- fleeak - a fluke; plaice; flounder
- nanny fleeak - brill, turbot, left-sided fluke
- sandscars - plaice, general name fleeak
- sooal - a sole
- souker - the lump-fish
- bass - perch
- snig - a small eel
Salmon
- esslins - salmon fry before going to sea
- morts - young salmon on first return from the sea
- sprod - the young salmon or salmon trout. "A run a sprods an morts"
- sparlings - smelts (young salmon)
- kipper - salmon out of season after spawning