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- noun Plural form of
shiner .
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Examples
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Lake Panasoffkee in FEB. with live wild shiners is the thing to do if you want a 10 lb or larger Bass.
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Lake Panasoffkee in FEB. with live wild shiners is the thing to do if you want a 10 lb or larger Bass.
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In good years, the shiners are the most abundant fish in the river and provide food for the bass and catfish that are popular among Texan anglers.
Scientists Fish for Way to Save Shiners Ana Campoy 2011
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Coins are called shiners because they shine like glowing coals, and I dare say that the simile exists in many more languages.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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The bulk wine market which encompasses everything from wine in the barrel to finished wines in unlabeled bottles, aka "shiners" may absorb some of this excess but with prices as low as $1 a gallon, it's not going to h elp winemakers raise very much money, let alone make them rich.
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Some anglersbelieve that "nervous" baitfish such as shiners are better than chubs and suckers as pike baits, but the minnow's accessibility to fish is moreimportant than its species.
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Smith should come along, he could string the whole lot of them on his cheapest lie, as a boy strings a dozen "shiners" on a stripped twig of willow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Little "shiners" on our stringers, with theyr tails tip -- toein 'bloom,
Riley Farm-Rhymes James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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Smith should come along, he could string the whole lot of them on his cheapest lie, as a boy strings a dozen "shiners" on a stripped twig of willow.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Smith should come along, he could string the whole lot of them on his cheapest lie, as a boy strings a dozen "shiners" on a stripped twig of willow.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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