Lote

Marmots, glacier fleas (spring-tails, not true fleas), admirable trout, and burbot (the fresh-water cod, called "lote" in French), outrageous wood-gnats, which English people call by a Portuguese name as soon as they are on the Continent, and singing birds (usually one is too late in the season to hear them) were our zoological accompaniment. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Nor are the commentators agreed whether they were cut out of a kind of lote-tree in paradise called al Sedra, or whether they were chrysolites, emeralds, rubies or common stone. 1 But they say that they were each ten or twelve cubits long; for they suppose that not only the ten commandments but the whole law was written thereon: and some add that the letters were cut quite through the tables, so that they might be read on both sides2-which is a fable of the Jews. ❋ George Sale (1716)

a large size in the Lake of Geneva (where I have seen it netted) is the burbot -- called "lote" in French -- a true cod of fresh-water habit which, though common throughout Europe and Northern Asia, is, in our country, only taken in a few rivers opening on the east coast. ❋ Unknown (1888)

If its the proceeding, I think politics could be a lote more interesting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For god sake bring another writer along and A lote more action. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I've been meaning to make handvo with the lote my mother-in-law sent, and now your post is egging me on! ❋ Cardamom (2008)

When I paid $215,000 pesos for a lote, C-B reported $250,000 in their monthly sales brochure. jaybear ❋ Unknown (2007)