† hornkeckn.
Obsolete.
The garfish or hornbeak.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)
horn-fishOE
hornkeckc1425
garfishc1440
horn-stocka1485
green-bone1525
hornbeak1565
thorn-beak1570
horn-back1598
needlefish1601
spit-fish1601
sea-needle1603
ganefish1611
snacot-fish1611
greenbacka1682
bill-fisha1757
gar1767
sea-pike1769
saury1771
gar-pike1776
sea-snipea1832
mackerel guide1835
long-nose1836
gore-fish1839
gorebill1862
mackerel-scout1880
Long Tom1881
snipe-eel1882
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 642/19 Hec gamorus, hornekek.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 247/1 Horn keke, fysche (P. horn~kek, or garfysshe).
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 765/12–13 Hec rugella, Hoc rustiforum, a hornkeke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/2 Hornkecke, a fysshe lyke a mackerell.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orphie, the Hornebeake, Hornekecke..Garre-fish.
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