speckled trout

noun

1. brook trout ( def 1 ).

speckled trout

noun

1. another name for brook trout

Word History and Origins

Origin of speckled trout¹

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

This time it was a fine speckled trout, bigger than any that Mr. Black had been able to hook.

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Tad held up for the inspection of the fat boy a handsome speckled trout, fully twelve inches long.

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And here Robert jerked into the boat a fine speckled trout caught by the bait of a garden worm.

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They were both speckled trout, lived side by side, ate the same food, but differed as greatly as a red-headed boy and an albino.

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I had hooked, and was playing a medium sized speckled trout, when it was seized and gorged by a sixteen-pound salmon trout.

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