hawsom

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Hausen (“sturgeon”).

Noun

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hawsom (plural hawsoms)

  1. (obsolete) sturgeon
    • 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:
      They say that the hawsom fish in the Danube has been taken twenty-one feet in length; they come up from the Euxine sea in the spring as far as Buda to spawn.

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