This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[O.E. Halt, holy ; and butte, flounder.] A large, flat sea-fish eaten on holidays. It weighs from 100 to 400 lbs., and is caught by hook and line from Spitzbergen to Iceland, and from Finland and Scandinavia to the British and French coasts, and along the Atlantic coast from New York northwards. The bait used is small herring.
 
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