Lexicographical Neighbors of Finnocks
Literary usage of Finnocks
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)
"Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about
half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions. ..."
2. An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs by Thomas Tod Stoddart (1866)
"Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about
half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"... or finnocks, declares, " We never see such a fish in Ireland, in the rivers
we are concerned with." In the rivers that run into the Solway Frith and in ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"Salmon ascend also the Ugie ; finnocks abound near that river's mouth ; and burn-
trout are plentiful in its upper reaches and affluents. ..."
5. Tweed and Don; Or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last by James Locke (1860)
"... we caught lots of finnocks, and one day we had two beautiful char, the size
of a half pound. This is a handsome shaped fish of a deep crimson colour. ..."
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