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marlin
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The marlin is a large game fish sometimes also known as the spearfish. Marlin may also refer to: Marlin (name) Marlin (car) , a British sports car maker Marlin (magazine) , an American magazine devoted to big game fishing The Marlin (dinghy) , a small 2-3 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marlin \Mar"lin\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The American great marbled godwit ( Limosa fedoa ). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit ( Limosa h[ae]matica ). 2. [from marlin spike, the shape of its bill.] Any of several marine billfishes of the genera Makaira and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera (taxlink Tetrapturus genus noshow=1) or (taxlink Makaira genus noshow=1). Every such species has a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Actually, there was just one fish in the water, and it was marlin . ▪ Annie says she and Dan Ross are going to go marlin fishing. ▪ Harry tells her you have to pull four, five hours to land a marlin . ▪ Striped marlin , one of ...
Usage examples of marlin.
Suddenly the line was plucked from his fingers, but for an instant he felt the mighty weight and majesty of the marlin as it struck the bonito with the broad blunt edge of its spike.
The two perissodactyl mammals started playing catch with the Marlin Perkins impersonator who had led a questionable life before going to Hell.
Captain Steve was convinced that we might hook a marlin or at least a big ahi at any moment, and he wanted to be at the controls when it happened.
It was a world of ceralean blues, deep-velvet purples, inked greens, of wide brainstone coral cliffs and deep-bottomed troughs where the sea turned black in the chartless depths--a world of eel and octopus and squid, of the soldier crab and the loggerhead turtle, of jeweled angelfish, gliding manta rays, and great blue marlin.
The line was calibrated to a tensile strength of one hundred twenty pounds, for it was designed to withstand the deep-water surges of giant marlin and bluefin tuna.
They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.
Any moment I might raise an enormous black Marlin or a great sailfish or mako, or even a broadbill, not to think of some new species of fish.
Nevertheless, you must almost do that if you expect to see a Marlin or a mako or a broadbill flash up out of the depths.
We crowded around the rail of the military ship, the Marine Marlin, my mother, father, my uncle Chil and I together with all the other passengers.
Marlin gave the rookie a moment to visualize demotion to a patrol unit.
The blast of the Marlin was deafening in the confines of the tunnel, and Geronimo was aware of a ringing in his ears as he levered his second round into the chamber.
Going over the causeway at Haulover Cut, Foley threw his brand-new Marlins baseball cap out the window.
Silvery marlin fins of froth and spray washed up and along and over the fenders, and the hood latch popped itself ajar.
He saw the Marlin lying on the carpet and quickly retrieved it, flung the axe aside and levered in a new round.
Marlin sent out robot hovercraft and is having two superheavies repaired.