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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a North American char, Cristivomer namaycush, having important commercial value.
See: lake trout
Lake trout is the usual term nowadays. For another earlier term, see salmon of the lakes.
Quotations
1749
With a setting Net placed in the Creek, we took daily great Number of Jacks and Salmon Trout.
1838
One of the small lakes of the Otanabee is called Trout Lake, from the abundance of salmon-trout that occupy its waters.
1948
You might look down from a canoe and see bull trout and salmon trout chasing one another forty feet below, and that's beating Great Bear River outside Fort Norman.
2
a char, Salvelinus malma spectabilis, characterized by reddish-orange spots on an olive-green skin, found in western lakes and rivers and on the Pacific coast.
See: Dolly Varden trout
Quotations
1882
Mountain trout are plentiful in all the streams and salmon trout in the mountain lakes.
1912
We trolled for and caught the fine salmon trout that the Indians call sapi.