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spearfish
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Population (2000): 8606 Housing Units (2000): 3904 Land area (2000): 6.107275 sq. miles (15.817770 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.107275 sq. miles (15.817770 sq. km) FIPS code: 60020 Located within: ...
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Spearfish may refer to:
Wiktionary
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n. A fish that has an elongated, spear-like snout. vb. To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Quillback \Quill"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American fresh-water fish ( Ictiobus cyprinus syn. Carpiodes cyprinus ); -- called also carp sucker , sailfish , spearfish , and skimback .
WordNet
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n. any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm ...
Usage examples of spearfish.
I was able to identify, if not classify, three new kinds of spearfish that have never yet been taken on a rod.
Days later, several men were busted for illegal spearfishing around Dinner Key and Government Cut.
Valdar had done some spearfishing, and as the sun sank behind the hills they sat across the fire from each other finishing off the last of their supper and removing tiny bones from between their teeth.
Sleeping during the hot days, watching impossibly lurid sunsets, spearfishing, grilling their catch on the long empty white beach while the surf hissed phosphorescent under the huge soft stars, making love by moonlight and lying entangled under the palms until dawn.
As a kid, he had nearly grown gills, catching tropicals for spending money in high school, or going spearfishing on long weekends in the Keys.
Dan and his father had been spearfishing off Marathon when a bull shark saw them, an eight-footer.
He rarely returns empty-handed, but it took him a while to get the knack of spearfishing, and it took him even longer to recognize which varieties of Kudeshda fish are edible.
For wouldn't it have been expedient, and typical of Simpson's cold war philosophy -- that he should make absolutely certain, once and for all, that no one ever could relate the real truth: the way the pieces really had fitted together, in the Spearfish jigsaw puzzle?
Both Jan and Barby were expert Scuba divers, and he had looked forward to spearfishing with them in the bay.