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speckled trout

speckled trout

noun

  1. another name for brook trout
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of speckled trout1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
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Example Sentences

This time it was a fine speckled trout, bigger than any that Mr. Black had been able to hook.

Tad held up for the inspection of the fat boy a handsome speckled trout, fully twelve inches long.

And here Robert jerked into the boat a fine speckled trout caught by the bait of a garden worm.

They were both speckled trout, lived side by side, ate the same food, but differed as greatly as a red-headed boy and an albino.

I had hooked, and was playing a medium sized speckled trout, when it was seized and gorged by a sixteen-pound salmon trout.

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