hawsom
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Hausen (“sturgeon”).
Noun[edit]
hawsom (plural hawsoms)
- (obsolete) sturgeon
- 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:
- They say that the hawsom fish in the Danube has been taken twenty-one feet in length; they come up from the Euxine sea in the spring as far as Buda to spawn.