lodde

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English

Noun

lodde

  1. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) A fish, the capelin.
    • 1813, Leopold von Buch (Freiherr), Travels through Norway and Lapland
      We were actually told that when the lodde enters from the sea, the fishermen smell them at a distance of ten English miles, and immediately set off in their boats in quest of them.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lodde”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian (deprecated template usage) lodde. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) loðna.

Noun

lodde c (singular definite lodden, plural indefinite lodder)

  1. capelin, Mallotus villosus
Inflection

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German (deprecated template usage) lōden.

Verb

lodde (imperative lod, infinitive at lodde, present tense lodder, past tense loddede, perfect tense er/har loddet)

  1. sound (to probe)
  2. plumb
  3. gauge, test
  4. fathom
  5. solder (to join with solder)

Inari Sami

Noun

lodde

  1. bird