spearfish
IPA: spˈɪrfɪʃ
noun
- Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
- Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
- Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus
- A city in South Dakota, united States of America.
verb
- To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.
- To fish for spearfish by any method.
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Examples of "spearfish" in Sentences
- The Spearfish data set unpacks to one such location.
- People spearfish for sport, for commerce or simply to eat.
- Spearfish Canyon to the north has many places to rock climb.
- Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest temperature change.
- The marlin is a large game fish sometimes also known as the spearfish.
- They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line.
- It has been replaced in service by the much more capable Spearfish torpedo.
- This is from Mark in Burnsville, Minnesota: I spearfish in the Sea of Cortez.
- Spearfish was depth charged throughout the day but finally eluded the escorts.
- Hebi is the spearfish, and I was in the Honolulu fish market about three months ago, and spearfish is not considered good fish at all.
- The tide is out, which means the fly fishing for Japanese sea bass I wanted to do will be very difficult and the rocky points around which I hoped to snorkel and spearfish are high and dry.
- In the late 1980s, protesters burned Crabb's likeness in effigy after she allowed Indian tribes to spearfish off their reservations a practice some white fishermen believed ruined their sport.
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