Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America.
Sinônimos
Examples for "blackfish"
Examples for "blackfish"
1Shark and the giant blackfish follow dogfish and seal.
2Draw two large blackfish, trim, and clean thoroughly.
3Dolphins, rock-cod, pigfish, and blackfish may be caught as quickly as they can be hauled out.
4The rivers yielded eels and blackfish.
5Now and then a blackfish was hauled in,-anevent greeted with a loud cheer from all parts of the boat.
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."