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Webster 1913 Edition


Birt

Birt

(bẽrt)
,
Noun.
[OE.
byrte
; cf. F.
bertonneau
. Cf.
Bret
,
Burt
.]
(Zool.)
A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
[Written also
burt
,
bret
, or
brut
.]
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Birt

BIRT

,
Noun.
burt. A fish, called also turbot.