dun

dun
1) an aquatic insect that has just emerged from the water and can fly
2) a greyish or grey-blue colour in the wings of mayfly adults. Both terms are used in fly fishing as characters to imitate in making artificial flies
3) a measure of the presence of the mold Sporendonema in commercial preparations of fish. Ranges from slight (barely visible) to moderate (less than 25% of the surface area)
4) a cure by slack salting (q.v.) of cod caught early in the spring, and often in February. Fish are laid in a pile for two or three months, in a dark store, covered, for the greatest part of the time, with salt hay or eel-grass, and pressed with some weight. In April or May they are opened and piled as close as possible in the same dark store, till July or August, when they are fit for use (New England)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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