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blackfish
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zo["o]l.) A large marine food fish ( Serranus atrarius syn. Centropristis atrarius ) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and ...
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Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. It concerns Tilikum , an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive killer whales . The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, ...
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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)). ...
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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 ...
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.