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sturio

sturio [cf. AS styria], sturgio [ME sturgiun, AN sturgeon], kind of large fish, sturgeon (Acipenser sturio). [capis in mari] delfinos et ~rias [AS: stirian] Ælf. Coll. 94; ~rio unus en tibi defertur Eadmer V. Anselmi I 18; salvo ‥ ~rjone de predicta piscaria Melrose app. 7 p. 671; s1151 extrahitur ~rgio regium reservandus in cibum Diceto YH 294; sturio magnatum cibus exquisitior ore / regali Neckam DS III 431; 1201 in custamento cariandi ~rgunum ad regem Pipe 194; 1205 de bono ~rgone xx pecias Cl 22a; 1223 pro uno ~rjone quem cepit in Tamisia Cl 542b; 1289 in j salm', xvj d. in stregon', iij s. vj d. Ac. Swinfield 39; in storgon', iij s. iiij d. Ib. 41; 1292 in caseo et ~rgeno ‥ pro Saracenis KR Ac 308/15 m. 2; 1293 abbas ‥ capit ‥ omnes stergiones captos in partibus illis in aqua illa PQW 217a; 1304 capiatis ‥ de c peciis ~rgionis ven' ii d. Pat 124 m. 2a; 1314 et xix li. in vj barellis storionis emptis pro dicto hospicio (DL MinAc) EHR XLII 198; 1325 pro ij barellis ~rgonum EEC 392; debent averare piscem ut †struionem [l. ~rionem] vel salmonem vel lampredas Reg. S. Aug. 308; 1453 pro j barello de salsis ~rgeonibus Ac. H. Buckingham 22; 1474 pro truta et ~reo et le mombles unius porpess Ac. Chamb. Cant. 143; 1508 e Flandria ~rco piscis mirae magnitudinis vivus regi delatus est André Hen. VII 115.

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