salmon ladder, salmon stair

A fish-way (q. v.). salmon-stair, 8. [SALMON-LADDER.] salmon-trout, s. Ichthy.: Salmo trutta ; a North European fish, much more common in Scotland than in England. Its habits are those of the Salmon. It attains a length of about three feet; upper parts blackish, usually with a purplish tinge on the silvery sides, under part silvery Called also Sea-trout, and in Wales and Ireland White-trout. The flesh is pink, richly flavored, and much esteemed. 2. The namaycush, or large Lake-trout of North America.