sleeve-fishn.
A fish of the family Loligo; esp. the common calamary or squid, Loligo vulgaris.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
calamary1567
sea-cat1601
sleeve1611
sleeve-fish1611
squid1613
calaminary1620
sea-clerk1623
sotong1833
pen-fish1835
sea-arrow1851
devil fish1866
sea-sleeve1867
oegopsid1890
chokka1902
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Taute, a Calamarie, or sleeue-fish.
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 54 I have found these Crabs, we call Keavies, eating the Slieve-Fish greedily.
1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 127 On a table or dish, There shall lie a sleeve-fish.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 340 The Sleeve-fish..have in the back, instead of a shell, a horny lamina in the shape of a sword or lancet.
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