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steel-head, a. and n.
Also steelhead.
A. adj. Having a head of steel. poet.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 40 With that he stiffely shooke his steelehead dart. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy. xi. lvi. 243 The steel-head Lance.
B. n.
1. The rainbow trout of N. America, Salmo irideus or S. Gairdneri. Also attrib., as steelhead trout.
1882Jordan & Gilbert Syn. Fishes N. Amer. 313 Salmo gairdneri, Steel-head; Hard-head; Salmon Trout. 1911Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 1908 317/2 Salmo is represented by..the steelhead trout. 1946[see cutthroat 5 b]. 1968Times 22 Oct. 3/3 Another species of trout, the steelhead, has been found to suffer from a vascular disease. 1976Vernon (B.C.) Daily News 21 June 20a/5 Sea-going Rainbow are known as steelhead trout.
2. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida. U.S. (local).
1888G. Trumbull Names & Portraits of Birds 112 William Wagner, a well known Washington gunner, tells of hearing it called Water-Partridge and Steel-head. 1917T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 153/1 They are extremely tough, hardy little birds and gunners know them by such names as Tough-head, Hard-head, Steel-head, etc. |
