Cornish dial. [Cf. WRASSE.] One or other species of wrasse.
1750. Heath, Acc. Isl. Scilly, 317. The Coast is plentifully stored
with Sea Round Fish; as
Cunner, Rockling, Cod, Wroth, Becket.
1882. Jago, Arc. Lang. Cornwall, 314. Wroth, a fish known as Conner, or sea Carp.