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- noun Alternative spelling of
muskellunge .
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Examples
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America has several species of pike, of which the muskelunge of the great lake region (_Esox masquinongy_) is the most important.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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I have caught the barba and the gamer yellow fish in the Vaal river, taken muskelunge and black-bass in Canada, thrown a fly over _guapote_ and _cavallo_ in
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848
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I was born on the sea-shore, in the Bay State; and here I am, up among the fresh-water lakes, as much nat'ralized as any muskelunge that was ever cotch'd in Huron, or about Mackinaw.
Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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a respectable size, but is as inferior to the pike as the pike is to the muskelunge.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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