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iron-nose B.C. Slang

• n. a fish, Salmo gairdnerii, of the Pacific coast, which spawns in fresh water after two or three years in the sea.

  See also: steelhead  

  • 1963  I took a picture that day of Kamloops steelheader Doug Lyons holding a nineteen pound iron-nose. . . .