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touladi
[< CdnF < Algonk.; Micmac]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a North American char, Cristivomer namaycush, having important commercial value. Various older spellings.
See: lake trout
Quotations
1846
The Toledi . . . weighs from five to twenty-five pounds, has two strong rows of teeth round its mouth like a Shark, flat, sharp and hooking, will bite off an ordinary cod line, and is a very voracious fish.
1855
These waters, as also those of the Temiscouta and Madawaska, are well supplied with Tulidi, a fresh water fish, weighing from seven to ten lb., of delicious flavor--with white fish, and large trout.
1896
The Mackinaw trout of the great lakes [is] the kokomesh of the Montagnais Indians and the touladi of the country of the Micmacs and Abenaquis.
1957
. . . a fourth kind of trout called touladi . . . the French-Canadians say, is a natural cross between the lake trout and brook trout.