Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sheepshead , a fish.
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 24 weeks 3 days ago nice pics. #18 not sure that is a sheephead, looks like a black drum. the head looks wrong to me.
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 24 weeks 3 days ago nice pics. #18 not sure that is a sheephead, looks like a black drum. the head looks wrong to me.
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I'm not an enthusiastic meat-eater anyway and the thought of sheephead for dinner: eeehw again!
with the economy being as it is... Katy 2009
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He got out the rod and caught mangrove snappers from under the banks and sheephead from their hiding places among sunken logs and snags.
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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The angel fish, so called for their uncommon splendour; the sheephead, so named from its having teeth like those of sheep; the cavalli, the mullet, the whiting, the plaice, and young bass, are all esteemed delicate food.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Inside the first of two 300-foot acrylic tunnels, California sheephead and leopard sharks glide past.
SFGate: Top News Stories Stephanie Wright Hession 2011
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Inside the first of two 300-foot acrylic tunnels, California sheephead and leopard sharks glide past.
SFGate: Top News Stories Stephanie Wright Hession 2011
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In addition to the trout, the Whites caught a sheephead and a red fish.
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In addition to the trout, the Whites caught a sheephead and a red fish.
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In addition to the trout, the Whites caught a sheephead and a red fish.
treeseed commented on the word sheephead
Another name for the freshwater drum
Known as a "garbage fish" among some Wisconsin anglers
February 19, 2008