PAR, or Salmonlet, or Samlet. A fish, called, on the river Wye,
a skirling; in Yorkshire, a brandling ; in Northumberland, a
rack-rider; and in other parts of England, a fingerling, from
the resemblance of its spotted streaks to the human finger. Par,
or samlet, is the name given it in Scotland, where it is best
known. It has been supposed to be generated by the blended spawn
of the trout and salmon, an opinion which receives great
probability from the circumstance of their frequenting the same
haunts with salmon and sea-trout, and their being forked in the
tail like the former. They are taken mostly in the same way. See
Samlet, or Skegger Trout. Harewood, Harry. A Dictionary of
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