Obs. rare. Also 4 elringe, 7 elldring, 8 eldriene. [app. = OHG. erlinc, ‘escaurus,’ prob. cognate and synonymous with mod.Ger. elritze minnow, which Kluge connects with eller (OHG. elira, erila), ALDER, as if ‘fish that lives under the shade of alders.’]

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  A fish; perh. properly the minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus), though this does not suit quot. 1618.

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c. 1325.  Metr. Hom., 136. Wit pouer men fares the king Riht als the quale fars wit the elringe.

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1618.  in Naworth Househ. Bks., 83. 3 elldrings vd.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Eldriene … a name by which some call the … Minnow.

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