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Definition of Sprod
1. n. A salmon in its second year.
Definition of Sprod
1. Noun. (UK dialect obsolete) A salmon in its second year. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sprod
1. a young salmon [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sprod
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprod
Literary usage of Sprod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Use of the Blowpipe in Chemical Analysis, and in the Examination of Minerals by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, John George Children (1822)
"Klaproth, there are ten per cent. of antimony in the sprod ... silver and sulphuret
of arsenic, I obtained a compound having all the properties of the sprod ..."
2. Modeling Water Resources Management at the Basin Level: Methodology and by Ximing Cai, Claudia Ringler, Mark W. Rosegrant (2006)
"... highest quantity of applied water for the analysis; and sprod = (1 - [minimum
... sprod values were derived from Dinar and Letey (1996), ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"sprod, v. to ... sprod, sb. salmon-trout. SPROTE, v. to brag, to amplify, to
exaggerate, to display. ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1834)
"... a mort or a sprod (whitling?) seen. Thirdly, We have the sprod, which is, I
believe,, synonymous with the whitling, whiting, or berling of Scotland. ..."
5. Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling: With Notes on by Edward Hamilton, M. D., Edward M. D. Hamilton (1885)
"In Lancashire a grilse is a sprod ; a salmon of the second year a mort ;l ...
1 According to others a sprod is a sea trout; a mort is the same fish on its ..."
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