Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any fish capable of affording sport to the angler, as the salmon, trout, bass, and many others; especially, a gamy food-fish.
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Examples
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Birds on the water can mean bait-fish, and bait-fish mean game-fish.
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Birds on the water can mean bait-fish, and bait-fish mean game-fish.
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We live and die by tourism down here, & the specter of blackened beaches, and dead game-fish scares hell out of folks from every political party.
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Kingsley-Schultz says he gotta confess he did major in fly casting at Oregon and got his Ph.D. in game-fish at Florida.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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"The idea came into my mind that perhaps now those men might be game-fish wardens."
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter
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It's based on the same principle as the law on trout or any other game-fish.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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This deliciously flavored game-fish is baked precisely as shad or white fish, but should be accompanied with cream gravy to make it perfect.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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The former is universal, and the Americans are the most skilled anglers with artificial lures in the world, due to the abundance of game-fish, trout, and others, and the perfect Government care exercised to perfect the supply.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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"Well," Step Hen was the first to break in with, "anyhow, game-fish poachers ain't quite so bad as smugglers would have been, and that's one satisfaction, I take it."
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter
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What are some necessary characteristics of a game-fish?
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
hernesheir commented on the word game-fish
Any fish capable of affording sport to the angler...especially, a gamy food fish. - The Century Dictionary
Priceless.
March 16, 2011