Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bed or nest made in the bottom of a stream, as by salmon and trout, in which fish deposit their spawn and milt.
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Examples
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Fog invariably makes a rich spawning-bed for wraiths and threats and the malevolent eyes of watching foes, but that Dartmoor fog, combined as it was with the very real dangers of mire and boulder and sharp-sided stream, was one of the most fertile sources of spooks and mind-goblins that I have known.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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There the water was contracted to a narrow strait, and in the swift current, close to the point, the great trout had fixed their spawning-bed from time immemorial.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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