loche

American  

[lohch] / loʊtʃ /

noun

1. the North American burbot.

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Etymology

Origin of loche

1665–75; < Canadian French, French: loach

Example Sentences

We are to make the acquaintance of other Northern delicacies,—beaver-tails, moose-nose, rabbits' kidneys, caribou-tongues, and the liver of the loche, an ugly-looking fish of these waters.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

From the waters of this river, since man was, have the Indians drawn and dipped and seined their sustenance—inconnu, jack-fish, grayling, white-fish, and loche.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Soon the fish in the water--brochet, camoo, meye, crocro, mullet, down to the eel, the crawfish, the loche, the tétar, and the dormer--died, and were thrown on the banks.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius

Storm-stayed at Wrigley Harbour at the entrance to Great Slave Lake, we have some splendid fishing,—jackfish, whitefish, loche, inconnu, "and here and there a lusty trout and here and there a grayling."

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Most of these rivers are well stocked with fish, of which the tétart, banane, loche, and dormeur are the principal varieties.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio