Obs. rare–1. [In note to passage quoted, said to corresp. to an Ital. torrentina, a fish so called because it abounds in mountain streams.] A kind of fish; perh. trout.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 835, in Babees Bk. (1868), 173. Vynegur is good to salt purpose & torrentyne, Salt sturgeon, salt swyrd-fysche savery & fyne.
