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elver

noun
🔊/ˈelvə(r)/
🔊/ˈelvər/
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  1. a young eel幼鳗Topics Fish and shellfishc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: variant of dialect eel-fare ‘the passage of young eels up a river’, also ‘a brood of young eels’, from eel + fare in its original sense ‘a journey’.