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

In addition to the two fishes above named, a loche Cobitis thermalis, and a carp, Nuria thermoicos, were found in the hot-springs of Kannea at a heat 40� Cent.,

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Who hungers for whitefish-stomachs or liver of the 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

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