mack'rel

Three cheers for the only girl in the land o 'the free an' the home o 'the brave that darst tackle a school o' mack'rel alone!

Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Annie Hamilton Donnell

'Twas her voice crying mack'rel, as now I have found,

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

"Labrador mack'rel" and so on, and Peter T. was too busy steering the cruises to pay any attention.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

And when we got to the Robinson rooms, there was Grace, lookin 'awful pale, and the old man himself ragin' up and down like a horse mack'rel in a fish weir.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"I shouldn't be surprised," says Peter, cool as a mack'rel on ice, "if that was his royal highness, the count."

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He grabbed at it like the "Labrador mack'rel" grabbed Stumpton's hook.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

If you're fishin 'for eels there ain't no use usin' a mack'rel jig.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

So Stumpton, having lived in Montana ever sence he was five years old, and not having sighted salt water in all that time, he don't know but what there IS such critters as "Labrador mack'rel," and he goes at 'em, hammer and tongs.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I was skipper of a mack'rel schooner down Cape Ann way, never mind where, and Seth

The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Well, Jeremiah," says Brown, chipper as a mack'rel gull on a spar-buoy,

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907