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- noun Plural form of
cavally .
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Examples
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The sea and rivers have plenty of fish; we saw abundance, though we caught but few, and these were cavallies, yellow-tails, and whip-rays.
Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792
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This part of Masafuero is a very good place for refreshment, especially in the summer season: The goats have been mentioned already, and there is all round the island such plenty of fish, that a boat may, with three hooks and lines, catch as much as will serve an hundred people: Among others we caught excellent coal-fish, cavallies, cod, hallibut, and cray-fish.
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They consisted principally of cavallies of different sizes, large and small snappers, and a few of two sorts of rock-fish, one with numerous spots of blue, and the other with whitish streaks scattered about.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
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Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers.
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All the creeks and bays are well stocked with mullets, large rays, grantors, cavallies, and drum-fish, so named from the noise they make when followed into shallow water, and there taken.
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The fea and rivers have plenty of fiin; we faw abundance, though we catched but few, and thefe were cavallies, yellow-tails and whip-rays.
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The sea and rivers have plenty of fish; we saw abundance, though we catched but few, and these were cavallies, yellow-tails, and whip-wreys. "
Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier John Pinkerton 1792
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