Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Southern U.S. A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.
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- noun The
crappie , genus Pomoxis.
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Examples
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We fished until almost dinnertime, then cleaned and scraped our stringer of bluegill, goggle-eye perch, and sacalait in the sluice of water from the windmill.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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I had fished for bream, sacalait, and mud cat under every cypress on that bank, because they always came into the shade to feed in the hottest part of a summer afternoon, and there was one tree that had rusted mooring chains nailed into the trunk with iron stakes that the bark had overgrown in stages until the chain looped in and out of the tree like a deformity.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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