padle

plural padles

1. ScotlandobsoleteA lumpsucker or lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus).

   The male lump-fish, or padle, is brought to market in April and May.

   1809, John Roberton, A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen

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   The Padle of our market is the male Lump fish (Cyclopterus Lumpus.) The female is called Hush by our fishers; but it is seldom brought to market, being much inferior to the male for the table.

   1807, “Fish Market”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 69, page 364

   The Lump Fish or Padle, as it is named in Scotland is often taken in the Firth of Forth in the salmon-nets and Musselburgh and Queensferry, generally about the month of June, and entirely disappears after the month of August.

   1838, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society for the years 1831-37, volume 7