Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Examples for "blackfish "
Examples for "blackfish "
1 Shark and the giant blackfish follow dogfish and seal.
2 Draw two large blackfish , trim, and clean thoroughly.
3 Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.
4 The rivers yielded eels and blackfish .
5 Now and then a blackfish was hauled in,-anevent greeted with a loud cheer from all parts of the boat.
1 When you catch any more tautog , be sure and bring them to me.
2 By ten o'clock there were six dozen perch in the basket, besides three handsome tautog and half a dozen sea flounders.
3 No, it isn't; the perch come to a dollar and twenty cents, the tautog to seventy-five, which make a dollar and ninety-five cents.
4 "I didn't mean to charge you any thing for the tautog , sir."
5 "I was adding up the perch and the tautog . "
6 "That he is; but the fish came to about that; the tautog are worth a quarter apiece."
7 "Yes, more too; I left six dozen perch and three handsome tautog in his kitchen just now."
8 " Tautog , sir; and if you will permit me, I will leave them in the kitchen with the perch."
9 "The tautog are worth something."
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