Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary

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BASE, sb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Hmp. Also written
bass Cum. Wm. ne.Lan.1 [bēs, bas.] The perch, Perca fluviatilis.
In Hmp. the sea-perch. See Barse.
Cum. Grose (1790); Talkin Tarn... abounds with perch (here
called bass), Hutchinson Hist. Cum. (1794) I. 131; Gl. (1851)
Aw's fish 'at comes ─ be't bass or char, Gwordie Greenup Yance
a Year (1873) ii; When Thirlmer's shore I steind upon An'
prickly bass I fish'd for, Richardson Talk (1876) 2nd S. 24.
Wm.1 w.Yks. Hutton Tour to Caves (1781) n.Lan.1, ne.Lan.1
Hmp. Holloway; Hmp.1 [Satchell (1879).]
[Base, a kind of fish, otherwise call'd a sea-wolf,
Phillips (1706); The boisterous base, the hoggish tunny
fat, Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) (DAV.); Bar, the
fish called a base, COTGR.; A base fishe, Sargus, Baret
(1580); Bace fysshe, ung bar, Palsgr. (1530); Bace,
fysche, Prompt. OFr. bars (also bar), ‘loup de mer,’
Hatzfeld. MHG. bars, perch (Lexer), cp. OE. bærs.
See Barse.]
BASE, see Bass, sb.1, Beest.