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Definition of Finnock
1. a young trout [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finnock
Literary usage of Finnock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs by Thomas Tod Stoddart (1866)
"THE IDENTITY OF THE finnock AND ORANGE-FIN SMOLT. ... the finnock and the orange-fin
smolt are of one and the same species, in fact identical, ..."
2. An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs by Thomas Tod Stoddart (1866)
"THAT the finnock and the orange-fin smolt are of one and the same species, in
fact identical, does not admit, in my judgment, of being questioned. ..."
3. The Great North-west and the Great Lake Region of North America by Paul Fountain (1904)
"Just gang about yer business," retorted finnock. Angry words passed, but nothing
came of it on that occasion. One day, however, when I returned from ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1875)
"One of them snid the finnock had the fame relation to the sea-trout of the Spey
that the whitling had to the sea-trout of the Tweed, of which it is the ..."
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