Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The garfish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The garfish.
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Examples
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The bullock was got to camp about evening and slaughtered; plenty of guardfish, swordfish, and sharks under the falls, which are about fifty to sixty feet high with no current.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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I also saw some young guardfish from nine to twelve inches long and many smaller.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay
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Charley saw the Silurus and the guardfish, and caught several of the broad-scaled fish of the Mackenzie; one of which, a most beautiful specimen, has been preserved and sent to
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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