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Bleak sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bleak sb. Forms: 5 bleke, 7 bleake, 7– bleak. [The 15th c. bleke points to an unrecorded OE. *blǽce weak fem. = ON. bleikja, OHG. bleicha:—OTeut. *blaikjôn- f. *blaiko- white, shining: see next word. But the only known OE. name is blǽʓe, BLAY, which is not directly connected with bleak; and it is possible that bleke was from ON., although bleyke, blayke would then have been the expected form.] A small river-fish, called also the Blay (Leuciscus alburnus); and scientifically the genus to which it belongs; also an allied sea-fish.

1 1496.  Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge, 32. The bleke is but a feble fysshe, yet he is holsom.

2 1597.  Breton, Wit’s Trenchmour (1876), 7. Little fishes, as Bleakes, Roches.

3 1653.  Walton, Angler, 205. There is also a Bleak, a fish that is ever in motion.

4 1655.  Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 237. Bleaks of the Sea, or Sea-Bleaks … are as … wholesome, as any Carp. Ibid., 269. Bleys or Bleaks are soft flesh’d, but never fat.

5 1787.  Best, Angling, 59. The bleak, on account of its eagerness to catch flies, is called by some, the river swallow.

6 1880.  Günther, Fishes, 604. ‘Bleak’ are numerous in Europe and Western Asia, fifteen species being known, the common Bleak is found north of the Alps only.

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