The meaning of Elver
Elver – definition
nounA young eel, especially when undergoing mass migration upriver from the sea.
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Measures are now being taken to decrease the impact of fisheries on a. rostrata populations in the …
nounA young eel (= a long, thin, snake-like fish)
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Elvers were traditionally eaten by local people and have been netted in the severn for hundreds of …
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Word origin
mid 17th century: variant of dialect eel-fare ‘the passage of young eels up a river’, also ‘a brood of young eels’, from eel + fare in its original sense ‘a journey’.
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