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Dogfish

noun

Primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America. Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, grindle.

Any of several small sharks.

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"Dogfish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cave returned from his business with the dogfish, about a quarter to two in the afternoon, he found the shop in some confusion, and his wife, extremely exasperated and on her knees behind the counter, routing among his taxidermic material. Her face came up hot and angry over the counter, as the jangling bell announced ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... the Tarpaulin Islanders had been troubled with dogfish. Beginning with a few scattering old "ground dogs," which apparently live on the banks the year round, they had become more and more numerous as the month advanced. Bait was stripped from the hooks; fish on the trawl were ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... It seems that the things attributed to God and creatures are univocal. For every equivocal term is reduced to the univocal, as many are reduced to one; for if the name "dog" be said equivocally of the barking dog, and of the dogfish, it must be said of some univocally—viz. of all barking dogs; otherwise we proceed to infinitude. Now there are some univocal agents which agree with their effects in name and definition, as man generates man; and there ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... The mail carrier shook his head. "Well! You'd better keep going now; you'll get to Nome before the season opens. Better take dogfish from Bethel—it's four bits a pound on the Yukon. Sorry I didn't hit your camp last night; we'd 'a' had a visit. Tell the gang that you saw me." He shook hands ceremoniously, yelled at his panting dogs, and went swiftly on his way, waving ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

Words linked to "Dogfish" : ganoid fish, genus Amia, Amia, grindle, Pacific spiny dogfish, shark, ganoid