Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garfish or sea-needle. See
Belone , and cut underBelonidæ . - noun The hake, Merlucius vulgaris.
- noun Any fish of the family Sphyrænidæ.
- noun A fish of the family Centropomidæ, of an elongate form with a projecting lower jaw like a pike, and with two dorsal fins, the first of which has eight spines.
- noun A fish of New South Wales, Lanioperca mordax.
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Examples
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_ -- If a man wished that a sea-pike might run into the body of the person who attempted to steal, say, his bread-fruits, he would plait some cocoa-nut leaflets in the form of a sea-pike, and suspend it from one or more of the trees which he wished to protect.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner
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Ajax could not bring himself to retreat along with the rest, but strode from deck to deck with a great sea-pike in his hands twelve cubits long and jointed with rings.
The Iliad of Homer 1898
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This was necessary only because of the number of other fish about -- bass, trevally, and greedy sea-pike, with teeth like needles and as hungry as sharks.
A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 Louis Becke 1884
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Ajax could not bring himself to retreat along with the rest, but strode from deck to deck with a great sea-pike in his hands twelve cubits long and jointed with rings.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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