Methy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Methy is a noun meaning (US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
Meaning
(US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
Example Sentences
Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]
In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.
The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.
Word Forms
- methies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cony, burbot, bugfish, bluefish, chopper, peamouth.
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