hornbeakn.
/ˈhɔːnbiːk/ Now dialect.
The garfish or hornfish, Belone vulgaris, which has extremely long and slender tapering jaws.
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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
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Acus, a fish..of some called a hornebeake.
1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario G iij b To seeth the Horne~beeke or Pipe fish.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 266 The Horne-beaks or Needle-fishes, Belonæ..haue within them so great egs that their wombe cleaueth and openeth when they should lay them.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Horn~beak, a kind of Fish.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 442.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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