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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American urodele batrachian, as a menopome, hellbender, or axolotl; one of the creatures commonly described as “fish with logs.” See cut under
hellbender .
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a first-prize, gold-medalled, nut-fed thoroughbred Sussex bacon-hog is to the roughest, toughest, boniest old razor-backed land-pike that ever ranged the woods of Arkansas.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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