Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
maskalonge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The muskellunge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
muskellunge .
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Examples
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Mr. Smith got the editor of the Times-Herald to write up a circular all about ozone and the Mariposa pine woods, with illustrations of the maskinonge (piscis mariposis) of Lake Wissanotti.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906
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The saber-like teeth of the maskinonge had cut it off like a knife.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Gradually they forced the maskinonge toward the sandy beach.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Hope more lively than any they had felt before filled the hearts of the young fishermen, as the monster maskinonge rushed across the cove.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Lee Henly and Carl Mills knew this, and they had been learning more and more of the habits of this particular maskinonge.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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A big maskinonge lives a life much like that of a rogue elephant in its isolation.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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At the close of the previous season, Mr. Cameron had given him his longest and strongest maskinonge casting-rod; it was too heavy now for Mr. Cameron, who found his casting arm seriously crippled by rheumatism.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Mr. Gardner was speaking of it in glowing terms, and was especially praising a maskinonge in the collection.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Slowly the rushes of the maskinonge were becoming less fierce.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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It was the time when the fruits were coming in, when vegetables were in full yield, when fish from the Beau Cheval were to be had in plenty -- from mud-cats and suckers, pike and perch, to rock-bass, sturgeon and even maskinonge.
The Money Master, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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