Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
1When you catch any more tautog, be sure and bring them to me.
2By ten o'clock there were six dozen perch in the basket, besides three handsome tautog and half a dozen sea flounders.
3No, 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."