water-shrimp

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The water-shrimp is a very common crustacean in the small Thames tributaries, and valuable as fish food.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882
'sug,' or water-shrimp; a bad food, but devoured greedily by the great trout in certain overstocked preserves.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847