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kype
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kype [kaɪp]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the hook on the lower jaw of a mature male salmon
[from Scot kip, kipp anything beaked or hooked; perhaps related to Low German kippe point, tip]
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Sometimes, however, very large salmon which have spent three or four winters at sea, grow smallish kypes and the considered opinion is that these are genuine springers.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Sometimes these fish come straight in from the sea bearing tide lice, which can confuse even experienced anglers I have heard this year of some fishermen catching silver cock fish with kypes and killing them.
Silvery salmon loses its sheen by Wilkie, Silver / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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