lamperns

A young trout missed him, and he pulled up amid the lamperns in the shallows.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

The lamperns were too busily engrossed to notice him.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

Twelve years ago the great body of the migrating lamperns were all poisoned by the river, and lay in tens of thousands in the mud at Blackwall Point.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

Men employed in scooping gravel out of the river at Hammersmith, lately noticed numbers of lamperns coming up on to the gravel-beds at low-water, and moving the gravel into little hollows, previously to dropping their spawn.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

Frogmen ha 'skinny shanks, and larks' heels, and holes down their bodies like lamperns.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

This morning, in a basket, I packed a little earthen pot full of wet moss, and in it some sticklebacks, male and female, the females big with spawn; some lamperns; some bull's heads; but

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

Frogmen ha’ skinny shanks, and larks’ heels, and holes down their bodies like lamperns.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

“Just now I am living here with my father, reading, smoking, and walking; I help him to eat lamperns and sometimes play a comedy with him which it pleases him to call fox-hunting.

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899