Meanings of horse-mackerel in English

Magnus Serpens Maris, suppositus, aut porpoises aut horse-mackerel, grex; 'very like a whale' (Shak.

For two hours they chugged out over a smooth sea, trolling a line behind and catching two large, brilliantly coloured horse-mackerel.

How many times have horse-mackerels been taken for the sea-serpent!

But ever since the Horse-mackerel people have refrained from eating horse-mackerels, because the lost wife and mother was a fish of that sort.

"What's that you're grumbling there, like a dead northeaster, you horse-mackerel?" said Barnstable; "where are our friends and countrymen who are on the land?