hawsom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hausen (“sturgeon”).

Noun

hawsom (plural hawsoms)

(obsolete) sturgeon
- 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:
  They say that the hawsom fish in the Danube has been taken twenty-one feet in length; they come up from the Euxine sea in the spring as far as Buda to spawn.

Anagrams

mohwas, whoams

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