Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A godwit or a curlew.
- noun The great marbled god wit, Limosa fedoa: more fully called horsefoot, common, brawn, and red marlin. See cut under
godwit . - noun The Hudsonian godwit, Limosa hœmastica, distinguished in some localities as the ring-tailed, white-tailed, or field marlin.
- noun The Hudsonian curlew, Numenius hudsonieus: more fully called crooked-billed, hook-billed, and horsefoot marlin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The American great marbled godwit (
Limosa fedoa ). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica ). - noun Any of several marine billfishes of the genera Makaira and Tetrapturus, popular as game in sport fishing.
- noun a curlew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A game fish having a pointed spearlike upper jaw belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from the cowboy wrote 7 weeks 2 days ago yea right! it all depends on the ammo, bullet weight, and type of caliber. my .357 marlin is very inferior to the ballistics of a .243, meaning a .243 might shoot the same at 7 yards and 100, but a .357 traveling at 1200 fps will definitly not hit the same.
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Yes | No | Report from the cowboy wrote 7 weeks 2 days ago yea right! it all depends on the ammo, bullet weight, and type of caliber. my .357 marlin is very inferior to the ballistics of a .243, meaning a .243 might shoot the same at 7 yards and 100, but a .357 traveling at 1200 fps will definitly not hit the same.
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We saw several tropical birds, which the sailors call boatswains, in consequence of their having one long feather for a tail, which they term a marlin-spike — an iron instrument sharp at one end and knobbed at the other, used in splicing ropes, etc.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway’s Santiago battles an 18-foot blue marlin from a skiff in the Florida Straits, where the Gulf Stream begins between Cuba and the Florida Keys.
The Mid-Life Slam 2009
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Seems like this might be a full-day outing, just to have one shot at a frikkin 'marlin.
Seriously, dude, there's a reason fishing nets were invented Tyler 2009
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At 2,000 pounds, the marlin is the largest of the ocean's game fishes, with the possible exception of one of its relatives, the Marlinbrandofish.
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For a creature with the bulk of a bull, the marlin was as sleek as any missile and blazed through the water at a speed not even the most powerful torpedo could attain.
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'Molly' for short, was Robin (the name was concocted out of the scientific terms for the bird 'robin' and the fish 'marlin' - which was her surname).
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Scott Stapp doesn't know a whole lot about the animal kingdom, and thinks that a marlin is a bird rather than a fish.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public Jon Azpiri 2010
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Outside the tournament arena, for Florida anglers who spend long hours on the blue water, a marlin is a matter of time and luck.
unknown title 2009
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