Crossword clues for rockfish
rockfish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Garrupa \Gar*ru"pa\, n. [Prob. fr. Pg. garupa crupper. Cf. Grouper the fish.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Log \Log\, n. [Icel. l[=a]g a felled tree, log; akin to E. lie. See Lie to lie prostrate.]
A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
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[Prob. the same word as in sense 1; cf. LG. log, lock, Dan. log, Sw. logg.] (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate.
Hence: The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Hence, generally: A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.
(Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
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(computers) A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer. Log board (Naut.), a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. Log book, or Logbook (Naut.),
a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board.
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a book in which a log[4] is recorded.
Log cabin, Log house, a cabin or house made of logs.
Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log; a dugout canoe.
Log glass (Naut.), a small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line.
Log line (Naut.), a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log, n., 2.
Log perch (Zo["o]l.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter ( Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish.
Log reel (Naut.), the reel on which the log line is wound.
Log slate. (Naut.) See Log board (above).
Rough log (Naut.), a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage.
Smooth log (Naut.), a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government.
To heave the log (Naut.), to cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of a large number of different species of fish, which dwell among rocks, specifically: 2 # The striped bass ((taxlink Morone saxatilis species noshow=1)) 3 # The logperch ((taxlink Percina caprodes species noshow=1)), also known as the (vern common logperch pedia=1) or (vern log perch pedia=1) 4 # The long-spined bullhead ((taxlink Taurulus bubalis species noshow=1)) 5 # Many species in the genus ''Sebastes'' 6 (label en usually uncountable) The rock salmon.
WordNet
n. the lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks
marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis]
[also: rockfishes (pl)]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 893
Land area (2000): 5.007130 sq. miles (12.968406 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003287 sq. miles (0.008513 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.010417 sq. miles (12.976919 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57200
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.991167 N, 79.066654 W
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Rockfish
Wikipedia
Rockfish is a common type of fish, actually of many species.
Rockfish may also refer to:
- Rockfish, North Carolina
- A fictitious Virginia town frequently mentioned in the TV drama The Waltons
- Rock Phish, a type of computer malware
- A nickname given to television character Jim Rockford (played by James Garner), from the TV drama The Rockford Files. The nickname was given to Rockford by an old acquaintance from his prison days, Gandolph "Gandy" Fitch (played by Isaac Hayes).
Rockfish is a common term for fish of a number of species. Some may be named this for their hiding amongst rocks, bedeviling predators including humans.
Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include:
- Sebastes, a genus of commercial fish that mainly inhabit the North Pacific but with a few species in the North Atlantic and southern oceans
- Sebastidae, a family of marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world. Sebastes is a genus within this family.
- Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
- Bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris), also known as rock salmon, a small shark from the northeast Atlantic
- Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
- Hypoplectrodes, a genus of serranids from southern oceans
- Salvelinus, a genus of salmonid fish
- Stonefish (Synanceia), a genus of venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
- Striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
- Groupers ( Epinephelus), any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
- Scorpaena, e.g. Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) a common Mediterranean species.
Usage examples of "rockfish".
The second was the near certainty of snagging a rockfish among the eddies and swirls where the north side of the tiny island rose sheer and stark from the dark green sea.
Fortunately, rockfish were tasty and they werent as picky about what and when they ate as salmon were.
Im hungry enough to eat a big rockfish all by myself and look around for more.
I can do it by stopping a train coming out of the Rockfish Gap and questioning the passengers.
Huddling in the three-sided, roofed shed where fishermen cleaned their catch, she counted the windows ten stories up and tried to ignore the fetid odor of rockfish, terrapin and hard crab.
He thought of the chill winter months spent dredging, the rise and fall of the skipjack over hard chop, the long, often frustrating search for oyster, for rockfish, for a living.
The cab dropped us at Rockfish Gap, southern gateway to Shenandoah National Park, our last long stretch of hiking before we ended part one of our big adventure.
At Rockfish Gap there is a tollbooth manned by rangers where motorists have to pay an entrance fee and thru-hikers have to acquire a backcountry hiking permit.
We had lunch with Connolly at Skyland, and then he left us to hitchhike back to his car at Rockfish Gap and return home.
On our next to last day on the trail, our sixth since setting off from Rockfish Gap, we were walking along beneath dull skies when there came an abrupt, cold roaring of wind.
She was fascinated by the enormous bait tanks teeming with squirming anchovies, amazed at the bin of fresh rockfish that was being brought up by a trio of muscled, bearded fishermen.
April we estimated there were more than a thousand concentrated near the western end of the Rockfish Gap.
He could keep ahead of the druj during the night, but the next morning they would run him down before he was halfway to the Rockfish Gap.
I lifted over the Rockfish and the spangle of lights was spread before us.
During July he tried to move along the foothills, and across the valley toward the Rockfish Gap.