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Large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
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blackfish
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Blackfish (c. 1729–1779), known in his native tongue as Cot-ta-wa-ma-go or Mkah-day-way-may-qua , was a Native American leader, war chief of the Chillicothe division of the Shawnee tribe.
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n. large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: tautog , Tautoga onitis ] female salmon that has recently spawned small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader ...
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n. 1 (context chiefly Scotland English) The Atlantic salmon, ''Salmo salar'', especially a female after spawning. (from 16th c.) 2 Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish ((taxlink Centrolophus niger species noshow=1)). ...
Usage examples of blackfish.
Blackfish, the type that had been the staple of inshore whaling in New England before they were hunted out and the big whalers began to sail to Hawaii and Kamchatka.
And it crossed my mind, though I dismissed the idea as baseless, that I had not come to Mishnory to eat roast blackfish with the Commensals of my own free will.
An ancient stone jetty was built out into the bay,and on it fishing nets had been laid to dry, and some ugly little blackfishing boats, with dirty black sails furled around their masts, wererocking on the blue water.