tench
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tench
1350–1400; Middle English tenche < Middle French, Old French < Late Latin tinca
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Four heat exchangers are submerged in the 1.7 metre deep water, which is also home to dozens of koi carp and tench – fish that have their own role in the operation.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
McDowell and Bayley have been the darlings of fly fishermen for decades, although McDowell has become infested with tench and will need a rehabilitation project to restore a productive trout fishery.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2014
Troops from the Mercian regiment's first battalion, who are due for postings in Helmand province, are tackling bream, carp and tench in lakes at the nearby village of Carlton Miniott.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
The catch is lowly tench and carp, but the thrill comes from sitting by a green pool ringed with beech trees and watching a huge pike "that was basking in the reeds turn and plunge."
From Time Magazine Archive
He moved his own fins anti-clockwise, gave the tip of his tail a cunning flick, and was lying alongside the tench.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
If he got a bite he was excited enough: and in this way occasionally brought home carps, tenches, and eels, which the Major cooked in the Continental fashion.
From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace
If he got a bite he was excited enough: and in this way occasionally brought home, carps, tenches, and eels, which the major cooked in the continental fashion.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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