hawsom
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Hausen (“sturgeon”).
Noun
edithawsom (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.