| 释义 |
garfish|ˈgɑːfɪʃ|
Forms: 5 garfysshe, 6 garefish, 7 garre-, 8 gair-, 9 gur(d)-, guard-, 7– garfish. See also gar n.
[app. f. gare n.1 + fish, in allusion to its long sharp nose.]
A fish (Belone vulgaris) with a long spear-like snout, called also green-bone, horn-fish, sea-pike, etc. In America and Australia the name is given to other fishes of similar form, e.g. to various species of Lepidosteus and Hemirhamphus.
c1440Promp. Parv. 247/1 Horn keke, fysche (S. horne stoke; P. hornkek, or garfysshe). 1577Harrison England iii. iii. (1878) ii. 21 Of the long sort are congers, eeles, garefish, and such other of that forme. 1611Cotgr., Orphie, the Hornebeake, Hornekecke, Piper-fish, Garre-fish. 1699L. Wafer Voy. 126 There is another sort of Fish on the North-Sea Coast, Which our Sea-men call Gar-fish..They have a long Bone on the Snout..and 'tis very sharp at the end. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 443 The Gar-Fish. Both the jaws of this fish are long and slender, and furnished with sharp conic teeth. 1810P. Neill List of Fishes 16 (Jam.) Esox Lucius, Sea-pike; Gar-pike; Guard-fish. 1850Clutterbuck Port Phillip iii. 44 In the bay are large quantities of..guard-fish. 1854Badham Halieut. 304 Those singular green bones of the spine which are peculiar to the gar-fish. 1890Boldrewood Miner's Right xxxviii. 336, I wonder if they have got any of those delicious garfish for us.
attrib.1775Romans Florida 96 They make them frequently undergo scratching from head to foot through the skin with broken glass or gar fish teeth. |