truff

plural truffs

1. archaicdialectalA truffle.

   The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.

   1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: […] J. Rivington and Sons, […], published 1778, page 202

plural truffs

1. CornwallEnglandarchaiccountabledialectaluncountableThe sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).

   One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.

   1885, The Duke of Beaufort [i.e., Henry Somerset], Mowbray Morris, Hunting, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 307

plural truffs

1. YorkshireA long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.