togue
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of togue
First recorded in 1830–40; from Canadian French, from Eastern Algonquian, perhaps shortening of Mi'kmaq atoγwa·su “trout”
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Once Poland was able to get the lake trout, or togue, to the surface, he managed to grab it with his hands and drag it into the boat.
From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2020
The hefty-sized togue smashed the previous record of 41 inches and 31.5 pounds, which had been set in 1958 by Hollis Grindle.
From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2020
Dr. A. L. Adams of the British army, in a recent work on the Natural History of New Brunswick, calls it "the togue or toladi, Salmo confinis, DeKay, the gray-spotted lake-trout."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
A half dozen rifles, thrust out through wheels or leveled across wagon togues, now covered the front rank of the Crows; but the savages, some forty or fifty in number, only sat their horses laughing.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
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