Obs. Forms: 6 lawmprell, lamprile, 6–7 lamprel(l, 7 lampreel, -pril(l. [? f. lampre LAMPREY + -EL1. Cf. F. lamprillon.] Some fish resembling the lamprey; according to R. Holme the lamprey at a certain stage of growth.
1526. Househ. Exp. Sir T. Le Strange (B. M. Add. MS. 27448. lf. 30 b). Item … ij lawmprells and a counger, iijd.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 38 b. Such diseased must beware of smouth fishes, as Iles, Lampriles, Barbels, Tenches.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 246. The table is serued with a kinde of Lamprels or Elepouts like to sea Lampreis.
1653. Walton, Angler, xiii. 165. Fish, whose shape and nature are much like the Eel … namely, the Lamprel, the Lamprey, and the Lamperne.
1688. [see LAMPRET].
