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samlet

Parr \Parr\ (p[aum]r), n. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. bradan a salmon.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.

  2. A young leveret.

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samlet

n. A young salmon.

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There are also, in divers rivers, especially that relate to, or be near to the sea, as Winchester, or the Thames about Windsor, a little Trout called a Samlet, or Skegger Trout, in both which places I have caught twenty or forty at a standing, that will bite as fast and as freely as Minnows: these be by some taken to be young Salmons.