Definition of "gurnet" [gurnet]

• Alternative form of gurnard (fish) (noun)

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• "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet."
• "To go to the sewing of Fish, Musculade, Minews in few of porpos or of salmon, bak'd herring with sugar, green fish pike, lamprey, salent, porpos roasted, bak'd gurnet and baked lamprey."
• "The pots have been set and baited with gurnet; during the two hours 'interval we are anchored."