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Meanings of tench in English
Freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water.
Usage of tench in English
1
So he seized hold of the tench, and thrust it back into the cave.
2
Perch, tench, soles, eels, and flounders are considered the best fish for this dish.
3
THE tench, no doubt, considers the pond in which he lives as the Great World.
4
But how often have you seen tench on a hotel menu, or eaten one yourself?
5
They would steal away the carp and tench when they were no bigger than gudgeons.
6
Now, you read in the bulletin of the fisheries boards of huge catches of tench.
7
The young rascal to go and catch my tench!
8
We were fortunate also in angling in the lake where we caught some very fine tench.
9
Carp, tench, and roach were so divided that even the fins, heads and fleshless spines were sold.
10
Mud for tench, brother, gravel for carp.
11
Of all fishes but the tench take the wing of a partridge or the thigh of a nun.
12
And sixty gold-tench; don't forget that.
13
We were in search of the elusive tench on the Saltaire stretch of the Leeds-Liverpool canal at the time.
14
The next I pulled up was a thick fish like a tench, but of another colour and much bigger.
15
As to what is known as coarse angling, tench, bream and pike are giving themselves up in vast numbers.
16
It's cram full of tench.
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