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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†BOURBEE, n. A species of rockling, a fish of the gadoid genus.Sc. 1808 Jam.:
Bourbee, the spotted Whistle fish.Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife and Kinross 51:
Mustela vulgaris Rondeletii; our fishers call it the Bourbee.

[Cf. Eng. burbot, a fresh-water fish of the family Gadidæ, O.Fr. bourbette (Cotgrave).]

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