Meanings of sun-fish in English

We saw many sun-fish which are a light gray in color.

Lord Sheffield, writing in 1785, suggested herrings, seals, dogfish and sun-fish as good sources.

I, too, heard the pewit's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.

It was of a new species, something like a sun-fish, with a large long ugly head.

The one figured evidently represents a sun-fish.

The sun-fish did as he was bid, and Manabozho drew him up, crying as he did so-

As far back as 1737, fishermen of the West had gone after what is also widely known as the sun-fish.

Indeed, at that season, an immature sun-fish will take a hook if there is but a remnant of a worm upon it.

The female sun-fish (called, I believe, in England, the roach or bream) makes a "hatchery" for her eggs in this wise.

The sun-fish did as he was bid, and on his return to the bottom of the lake told the king-fish what Manabozho had said.

Striped bass, white perch, pickerel, sun-fish, frost-fish, and catfish are amongst the game, and trout are to be found in many of the tributary brooks.

The gelding went sun-fishing as a formal protest against the lariat, then surrendered tamely.

Grim as were results of sun-fishing on the rider, they were hardly less vitiating for the horse.

Discarding fanciful tricks, he at once set about sun-fishing, that most terrible of all forms of bucking.

One of these was a very large odd-looking Sun-Fish, a curious creature, all head and no body.

Irish poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has won the prestigious Canada-based Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection, The Sun-fish.