Grice’s Pirotese

  + Pirot. Obs. [a F. perot (Cotgr) cf Piddock] 1611. Cothr. Pirot, the Pirot, or Hag fish; a kind of long shell fish. 1686 Plot Slaffordsh 250 A sort of Solenes (which the Venetians call Cape longe, and the English Pirot) a kind of Shell fish deep bedded in a solid rock