Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fish of the genus Caranx. See Caranx and horse-mackerel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevallé. [See Illust. under carangoid.]

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  • noun Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.

Etymologies

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Compare Portuguese cavalla, Spanish caballa; probably from Portuguese cavallo ("horse").

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Examples

  • There was not the slightest chance of escape for the sardines, while the cavally circled round and round, feeding from the edge of the mass.

    Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

  • Off the Cape of Good Hope I saw schools of sardines or other small fish being treated in this way by great numbers of cavally-fish.

    Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

  • Farther outside, a system of palisade work of caltrops and man-traps -- sometimes in the slang of the day called Turkish ambassadors -- made the country for miles around impenetrable or very disagreeable to cavally.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1594 John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Farther outside, a system of palisade work of caltrops and man-traps -- sometimes in the slang of the day called Turkish ambassadors -- made the country for miles around impenetrable or very disagreeable to cavally.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Farther outside, a system of palisade work of caltrops and man-traps -- sometimes in the slang of the day called Turkish ambassadors -- made the country for miles around impenetrable or very disagreeable to cavally.

    History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Farther outside, a system of palisade work of caltrops and man-traps -- sometimes in the slang of the day called Turkish ambassadors -- made the country for miles around impenetrable or very disagreeable to cavally.

    History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • A seine was hauled upon the small beaches at the south end of the island, and brought on shore a good quantity of mullet, and of a fish resembling a cavally; also a kind of horse mackerel, small fish of the herring kind, and once a sword fish of between four and five feet long.

    A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794

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