Marlin

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A godwit or a curlew.
  • noun. The great marbled god wit, Limosa fedoa: more fully called horsefoot, common, brawn, and red marlin. See cut under godwit.
  • noun. The Hudsonian godwit, Limosa hœmastica, distinguished in some localities as the ring-tailed, white-tailed, or field marlin.
  • noun. The Hudsonian curlew, Numenius hudsonieus: more fully called crooked-billed, hook-billed, and horsefoot marlin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica).
  • noun. Any of several marine billfishes of the genera Makaira and Tetrapturus, popular as game in sport fishing.
  • noun. a curlew.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A game fish having a pointed spearlike upper jaw belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
  • Word Usage
    "Yes | No | Report from the cowboy wrote 7 weeks 2 days ago yea right! it all depends on the ammo, bullet weight, and type of caliber. my .357 marlin is very inferior to the ballistics of a .243, meaning a .243 might shoot the same at 7 yards and 100, but a .357 traveling at 1200 fps will definitly not hit the same."
    Hypernym
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    billfish  
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    Arlen  Harlan  carlin  
    Same Context
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    spearfish