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- noun Alternative spelling of
jewfish .
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Examples
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Water passed with little hindrance through the platform, while jew-fish, yellow-tail, and bream, were retained in considerable numbers.
Tropic Days 2003
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Water passed with little hindrance through the platform, while jew-fish, yellow-tail, and bream, were retained in considerable numbers.
Tropic Days 1887
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I've been fishin ', on and off, ever since I was a little boy, and I've caught nigh every kind there is, from the big jew-fish and cavalyoes down South, to the trout and minnies round about here.
Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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We could distinguish the jew-fish, the saw-fish, and many other denizens of those Southern waters, which, disturbed by the schooner's keel, darted away in all directions in a blaze of light, every scale on their bodies being clearly defined.
In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The water-holes abounded with jew-fish and eels; of the latter we obtained a good supply, and dried two of them, which kept very well.
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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The jew-fish has the same distoma in its swimming bladder, which I observed in specimens caught in the Severn River to the southward of
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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Great big baracouta and glouper -- him fifty pound weight; and mauget, and hedgehog, and jew-fish; him wonderful good to eat, fit for de Queen of England, "and Quasho smacked his lips.
The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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