Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A catostomoid fish of the genus Carpiodes, C. cyprinus, a kind of carp-sucker, also called sailfish, skimback, and quillback. It is common from the Mississippi valley to Chesapeake Bay.
- noun The bill-fish, Tetrapturus albidus, belonging to the family Histiophoridæ, or sailfishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large and powerful fish (
Tetrapturus albidus ) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean. - noun The carp sucker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fish that has an elongated, spear like, snout. e.g. the Shortbill Spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris).
- verb The act of trying to catch a
fish using aspear orspear gun . To dospearfishing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
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Examples
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They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line.
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Hebi is the spearfish, and I was in the Honolulu fish market about three months ago, and spearfish is not considered good fish at all.
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In the late 1980s, protesters burned Crabb's likeness in effigy after she allowed Indian tribes to spearfish off their reservations a practice some white fishermen believed ruined their sport.
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They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line.
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This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
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This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
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This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
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This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
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This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
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The tide is out, which means the fly fishing for Japanese sea bass I wanted to do will be very difficult and the rocky points around which I hoped to snorkel and spearfish are high and dry.
Seoul James Card 2009
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