Meaning of troutlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A young trout.

Equivalents

Examples

“The brook beneath, thro’ which the troutlet shy / Shot swiftly on, and baffled all his skill;”

“As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet / Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,”

“He has a nice taste in the arts that has come to him by the way of socks, spats and slips, and of these he has a large and happy collection, which he laughs at jollily in public […] but in the privacy of his chamber he sometimes spreads them out like troutlet on the river’s bank and has his quiet thrills of exultation.”

“Farther along I came to a stream and, resting on its bank, counted many troutlets lying on the bottom among the stones.”

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