Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A series of steps or ladders, etc., so constructed on a dam as to permit salmon to pass up-stream.
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Examples
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The furiously arching salmon-leap that is such a distinctive feature of Grigorovitch's choreography is here muted to a sulky aerial twitch – not quite the stuff to set against Vasiliev's gravity-defying revoltades and double assemblés.
Spartacus; Laurencia 2010
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It chanced that one day the giant caught a salmon, near a salmon-leap upon his estate -- for, though a big ould blackguard, he was a person of considerable landed property, and high sheriff for the county Cork.
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
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Viewed the salmon-leap at Ballyshannon, which is let for 400 pounds a year.
A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Arthur Young 1780
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a salmon, near a salmon-leap upon his estate -- for, though a big ould blackguard, he was a person of considerable landed property, and high sheriff for the county Cork.
The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842
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a salmon, near a salmon-leap upon his estate -- for, though a big ould blackguard, he was a person of considerable landed property, and high sheriff for the county Cork.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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a salmon, near a salmon-leap upon his estate -- for, though a big ould blackguard, he was a person of considerable landed property, and high sheriff for the county Cork.
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842
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