Dare

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

DARE, sb.4 Nhb. e.Cy. Lin. [deər, diər, dā(r).] The fish dace, Leuciscus vulgaris. Nhb. A common fish in the Tyne, N. & Q. (1871) 4th S. viii. 243; Nhb.1 Also called a skelly. e.Cy. The dace is very commonly called dare, and in some other localities dar, N. & Q. (1871) 4th S. viii. 313. Lin. Dace, appellantur ‘dares,’ Skinner (1671). [Satchell (1879).][The pretty slender dare, of many call'd the dace, Drayton Polyolb. (1622) xxvi; Hic capita, a dar, Pict. Voc. (c. 1475) in Wright's Voc. (1884) 763. Fr. dard, a dace, or dare-fish (COTGR.); OFr. dar, ‘dard ou vendoise’ (La Curne).]