noun. A salmon of the first year; a smolt.

noun. The parr.

noun. A parr; a young salmon.

"Winchester, or the Thames about Windsor, a little trout called samlet, or skegger trout (in both which places I have caught twenty or forty at a standing), that will bite as fast and as freely as minnows; these be by some taken to be young salmon; but in those waters they never grow to be bigger than a herring."