finnoc

plural finnocs

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of finnock.

   Char enter the river in the finnoc stage, […]

   1963, R. N. Stewart, Salmon and trout: their habits and haunts, page 92

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   He has only his hedcosycasket on and his wollsey shirtplisse with peascod doublet, also his feet wear doubled width socks for he always must to insure warm sleep between a pair of fullyfleeced bankers like a finnoc in a cauwl.

   1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, page 578

   The whitling and the finner, or finnoc, have been supposed by many to be young salmon.

   1803, Henry Mackenzie, Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland, page 377