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- noun Plural form of
bonetta .
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Examples
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Here were collected sharks, and pilot-fish, and albicores, bonettas, dolphins, flying-fish, and numberless others, for which old Mr Stunt, to whom I applied, could give me no name.
Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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There were bonettas, and dolphins, and skipjacks without number, all affording sport and very pleasant provender; while the seaman's arch-enemies, the sharks, cruised round them as if they had made up their minds that they were to become their prey.
The Three Midshipmen William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On the 17th, being in latitude 27° 32 'S., longitude 310° 36' W., we saw several albatrosses, and caught some bonettas.
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"Yes, sir; but you see how it is -- the small fish were chased by the larger ones, which are bonettas, and in their fright ran upon the beach.
Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific" Frederick Marryat 1820
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These bonettas were so anxious to catch them, that they came on shore also, and then the gannets picked them all up. "
Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific" Frederick Marryat 1820
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