Значения для термина "thornback" отсутствуют.
1 The boy gave a curious half-sad smile, without turning his eyes from the thornback , and said nothing.
2 It is these purses, and those of the thornback and the edible skate, that we oftenest pick up on the English coast.
3 These include perch; bream; the john-dory; carp; barbel; salmon; pike; trout; sturgeon; the shark; thornback ; lamprey; turbot; plaice; sole; flounder; cod; haddock; &c.
4 They saw a large turtle, and many skates and thornbacks , but caught none.
5 Thornbacks are the same as in England.
6 The THORNBACK differs from the true skate by having large spines in its back, of which the other is destitute.
7 "Antient maides" were held in little esteem by him; not one thornback is on his list.
8 Here are also skates, thornbacks , and other fish of the ray kind (one sort especially like the sea-devil), and gar-fish, bonetas, etc.
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