Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The swimming-bladder or air-sac of a fish. The sounds of some fishes are made into glue, and others, as in the case of the cod, are eaten.
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Examples
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_cold_ water; put in this fish-sound; fill up with boiling water -- there, that is enough.
May Brooke Anna Hanson Dorsey 1855
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