These they called dogfish and nurse and we have citations for those uses back about 100 years before this new fancy shark word. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
"But after all, a dogfish is a shark, and aren't sharks the most vicious creatures o 'the sea?". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
My dogfish is a salt water shark that has skin that can be used as sandpaper, and bears its young live. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
I forgot to mention the salt-water dogfish, which is a kind of shark and is an important food fish,IIRC. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
There are so many fish named "dogfish" that it proved impossible. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FISHBASE AND AVIBASE.] Reference
I used this DB to try to figure out what the local Minnesota "dogfish" is. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FISHBASE AND AVIBASE.] Reference
"I used this DB to try to figure out what the local Minnesota "dogfish" is.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: FISHBASE AND AVIBASE.] Reference
Incidentally, I always thought a "dogfish" was a nasty little shark, about 3' long, which favors rocky coastlines. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
"A dogfish is a shark, as you know, and mos 'people don't like the idea of eatin' any kind o 'shark. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference
Back home in Fla we called them mudfish or dogfish. From Wordnik.com. [Anyone ever eat Bowfin? Some people call them grendel or shoepic or choupic.] Reference
Porpoise stew, fillets of dogfish, or stewed shark. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
They adopted three guppies and four dogfish puppies. From Wordnik.com. [Billy the Squid] Reference
He compared these gill-slits with those of a dogfish. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
And the sharks and the dogfish their grave-clothes unbound. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
But a decrease of dogfish and skates has been observed since 1990. From Wordnik.com. [Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference
My dad once had a huge dogfish on his line, it looked pretty weird. From Wordnik.com. [what is the weirdest fish you caught and where did you catch it (our weird fish in maine is the fallfish) ?] Reference
The sonnet and the dogfish are obscured by two different processes. From Wordnik.com. [Walker Percy "The Loss of the Creature"] Reference
They came down to bring a cargo of dogfish-oil to the light-house at. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Better take dogfish from Bethel -- it's four bits a pound on the Yukon. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
All through July the Tarpaulin Islanders had been troubled with dogfish. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Cazon = a kind of shark = dogfish shark; sometimes written tiburon cazon. From Wordnik.com. [Fish] Reference
Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 50 weeks 5 days ago black dogfish, maby. From Wordnik.com. [Pat, Vanna, Dead Sharks] Reference
It is fished by small boats and vessels when the dogfish are on the outer grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
We fished for 30-pound cachorra, or dogfish, with two-foot long earthworms as bait. From Wordnik.com. [Jungle Fever] Reference
I don't reall know if it would be classifed a fish. lovetohunt is right dogfish are weird. From Wordnik.com. [what is the weirdest fish you caught and where did you catch it (our weird fish in maine is the fallfish) ?] Reference
The so-called starry dogfish bears young the most frequently; in other words it bears twice a month. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
For a graph of historic landings of skates and spiny dogfish between 1960 and 1997, see NOAA, 1999, p. 92. From Wordnik.com. [Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference
The water was filled with dogfish, and old sea dogs, and lapdogs were swimming around and around the island. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
The arrival of the dogfish usually puts a temporary ending to the fishing here in the last days of June or early. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
We keep a couple of irons aboard for sharks, dogfish and the like, and it didn't take long to sink one in this critter. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
Fishing here in the summer months is mostly by hand-lining because of the presence of schools of dogfish in these waters at that season. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
We fished for carp, dogfish, pike and bullheads at night. From Wordnik.com. [ESPN.com]
"I don't care if I make a penny on dogfish, we just need to kill them.". From Wordnik.com. [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference
Meanwhile, the European market may soon be a tougher place to sell dogfish. From Wordnik.com. [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference
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