The elver is the baby freshwater eel that is born in the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda and drifts over to Europe on the Gulf Stream in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Shortz, whose undemanding intellectual rigor -- An adult elver?. From Wordnik.com. [May 2008] Reference
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that an elver is a kind of eel. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Book Day to Paul Melko & Stephen Leigh] Reference
The change of V F strongly suggests a South Western origin of the word elver. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM.] Reference
Under the European eel recovery plan, much of the elver catch now goes for restocking. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The elver may be fishy lucre to the hardy but for the rest of us it is easier to keep the day job. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Biscay, and the villages in Spain and France whose economies depend almost entirely on elver fishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The young elver, at least a year old, which makes its way from the open sea to the estuaries and rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Scientists estimate that across Europe, elver numbers have now crashed to barely 5% of their 1980s levels. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Dave Smith, with his bespoke elver fishing Land Rover and his £73 annual licence, is out to get some of that loot. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Today the elver is sold to the eel-eating Germans, Poles and Dutch, who all use it to restock their depleted rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And it is true that the "Whitebait of the West", as the elver is known locally, currently sells for £250 a kilogram. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The elver has fed and financed generations of the city, providing protein for the poor and pin money for the penniless. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The Parrett in particular, says Stone, is "elver central", accounting for almost all the glass eels harvested in the UK. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Thefe elver-cakes they difpofe of Bath and Briftol; aid when they are fried, and ten with butter, nothing is more delicious. From Wordnik.com. [A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ...] Reference
An elver, as you probably know, is what a baby eel is called (and if that isn't the cutest name for a baby animal you've ever heard, I'll eat my hat). From Wordnik.com. [Flotsam] Reference
"Before the 1960s, when commercial eeling started, there were huge elver runs," says Caleb Royal, who has been researching tuna (eel) at Te Wananga o Raukawa in Otaki. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
By the time they have reached the elver stage, they have made their way, guided only by instinct, from the deep sea to the surface, and thence to the mouths of rivers; these they ascend in millions, and in their endeavour to get into fresh water, they have to overcome obstacles such as would deter most boys and girls. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
'elver'; and Professor Grassi, who had a big share in elucidating the whole matter, tells us the curious fact that he found the Sicilian fishermen well acquainted with the little transparent larva (the. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
I never see such a fidgety young elver in my ---- Oh, look at that! ". From Wordnik.com. [Young Robin Hood] Reference
The elver movement of the running sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [博客李淼] Reference
With an X -/- acto tongued precision/I clean him of ringleaders —/I mean the cell words which/will invisibly yoke every/mote of him to revolt —/his spirit slaking from/its bleached body: his/damp shorts on a dock,/my elver form caught/deep in the gut of a roller Oh, you really don't want to go into the library you have no future there/this violet in pieces in John Maynard Keynes/this pressed columbine in Joseph Conrad/you practice on your own hand//(a joystick & a bag of fertilizer)/what is this: some joke?. From Wordnik.com. [I Have to go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl] Reference
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