Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
porpoise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A porpoise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
porpoise .
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Examples
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‘porkpisce’ (Spenser), that is sea-hog, or more accurately hogfish {58} will be ‘porpesse’, and then ‘porpoise’, as it is now.
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