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Salmon-leap

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Salmon-leap
    a series of steps to permit a salmon to pass up-stream
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. saulmon—L. salmo, from salīre, to leap.

Usage in the news

An Atlantic salmon leaps while swimming inside a farm pen near Eastport, Maine. scpr.org

Salmon attempt to leap up the fish ladder (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife). forbes.com

Gary Walts/The Post-Standard A fish hooked on somebody else's line leaps out of the water in front of Kevin McCarthy, of Baldwinsville, on the Salmon River in Pulaski. blog.syracuse.com

Bronze salmon leap up the falls at the top of 2nd Street. hoodrivernews.com

Usage in literature

The pool is full of salmon, leaping merrily in their delight at coming into their native stream. "Fisherman's Luck" by Henry van Dyke

At last, in, I suppose, one supreme effort to escape, he leaped clear of the water like a salmon. "The Cruise of the Cachalot" by Frank T. Bullen

The salmon begin to leap shortly after sunrise. "Astoria Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains" by Washington Irving

What is it that makes salmon leap? "Little Rivers" by Henry van Dyke

A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ran a large river, and up a waterfall some salmon were leaping. "The Orange Fairy Book" by Various

There is a high saw-mill dam there which every salmon in his upward journey tries his hand at leaping. "Locusts and Wild Honey" by John Burroughs

A salmon vainly attempted to leap up a cascade. "Cobwebs From an Empty Skull" by Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)

All the Sangos swim like salmon but cannot of course leap up rapids. "A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State" by Marcus Dorman

At last, in, I suppose, one supreme effort to escape, he leaped clear of the water like a salmon. "The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book" by Various

The drive to the Salmon Leap, at Leixlip, should not be missed. "The Sunny Side of Ireland" by John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger

Usage in poetry
Like exiled princes, flocking to their home,
They gather round;
Beneath the river bank great salmon leap,
And trout abound.
Then baptized they all that region,
Swarthy Lap and fair Norwegian,
Far as swims the salmon, leaping,
Up the streams of Salten Fiord.