birt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.

Noun

birt (plural birts)

  1. (UK, dialect) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 20 April 2013, at 16:24