north. dial. [Of obscure origin.] A salmon in its second year.
1617. Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 218. A salmon and sprodes and troutes.
a. 1672. Willughby, Hist. Pisc. (1686), IV. iv. 189. Nostratibus in fluvio Ribble agri Eboracensis Salmones primo ætatis anno Smelts dicuntur; secundo Sprods.
1677. Johnson, in Ray, Corresp. (1848), 127. I am a little jealous that their Sprods are but Scurves.
1861. Act 24 & 25 Vict., c. 109 § 4. All migratory fish of the genus salmon,… that is to say salmon,… tubs, yellow fin, sprod, herling [etc.].
1884. Westmorl. Gaz., 1 Nov., 5/5. A good many morts and sprods have been landed from the lower reaches of the Kent.
