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n. - Common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States.

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  • The cunner, called the perch in Boston Harbour, is taken in spring and summer.
  • In addition to crabs, watermen found croaker and oyster toadfish, as well as rarities, such as stargazer and cunner.
  • To sit for hours blinking in the sun, waiting for a cunner to come along and take his hook, was as exhaustive a kind of labor as he cared to engage in.
  • I have watched the bird plunge into the waves of the ocean, on the coast of Maine, to bring out a cunner almost too large for her to carry, and I have seen her drop into...
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