branlin

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What's the 2nd component? -ling?”) From its red colour. See brand.

Noun

branlin (plural branlins)

1. A small red worm or larva, used as bait for fish.
2. A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “branlin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)