Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fish of the family Tetragonuridæ, found in the open Atlantic.

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Examples

  • A heroic method, surely; though it once cost me the best square-tail I ever hooked, for Theodore had forgotten the landing-net, and the gut broke in his fingers as he tried to swing the fish aboard.

    Fishing with a Worm Bliss Perry 1907

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