(Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
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(Zool.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
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(Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
...Skipjack-Pike, n. This fish, Temnodon saltator, Cuv. and Val., is the same as the British and American fish of that name. It is called Tailor (q.v.) in Sydney. The name Skipjack used also to be given by the whalers to the ... — A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
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