gurnard

• In this bay vast quantities of fish resembling the gurnard were found, so that in two or three hours, with only four or five hooks and lines, sometimes four hundred were taken Sailing on the 19th, two days afterwards they reached an island off a high cape, where they found four Indians fishing from their canoes. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
• Leg spines of somewhat the same sort are found in the common English gurnard, and in this age of Aquariums and Fisheries Exhibitions, most adult persons above the age of twenty-one years must have observed the gurnards themselves crawling along suspiciously by their aid at the bottom of a tank at the Crystal Palace or the polyonymous South Kensington building. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall, has the following notes Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the English term, is derived a grunnitu_, from grunting like a hog. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832
• In this bay vast quantities of fish resembling the gurnard were found, so that in two or three hours, with only four or five hooks and lines, sometimes four hundred were taken. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
• Leg spines of somewhat the same sort are found in the common English gurnard, and in this age of Aquariums and Fisheries —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

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