mummichog

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"Small birds were sounding the alert / as I followed her unladen / steed through a dell so dark and dank / she might have sported the waders / her grandfather had worn at the nadir / of his career, scouring the Outer Banks / for mummichog and menhaden," goes "Blenheim," in 2006's Horse Latitudes. ...

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  1. noun A stout-bodied killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) of the Atlantic coast south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, valued especially as bait.

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  • "Small birds were sounding the alert / as I followed her unladen / steed through a dell so dark and dank / she might have sported the waders / her grandfather had worn at the nadir / of his career, scouring the Outer Banks / for mummichog and menhaden," goes "Blenheim," in 2006's Horse Latitudes. ... —  GotPoetry.com News
 

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