[Ads-l] Antedating of "ground pike" (OED 1890)

[John Doe]

1842 Chauncey Goodrich Hist. of Ver. THE GROUND PIKE-PERCH [...] [The fish]
usually swims very near the bottom of the water, and hence it has received
the name of Ground Pike (*Pike-Perch*).
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