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Quotation dates: 1700
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†ETTERPYLE, n. A small fish, ? the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.Dmf. c.1700 Dr G. Archibald in Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. (1901) XVII. 57:
Etterpyles like a small burn trout, with a large head and broad shoulders, carrying three stings on the back and one at the corner of each side of the mouth.
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