mackerel

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• Mackerel

  ·noun A pimp; also, a bawd. II. Mackerel ·noun Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several rel...

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• mackerel

  n. In Australia, Scomberantarcticus, Castln., said to be identical with Scomberpneumatophorus, De l...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mackerel

  The Scomber vulgaris, a well-known sea-fish. ...

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• horse-mackerel

  n. The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...

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• bastard-mackerel

  , or horse-mackerel The Caranx trachurus, a dry, coarse, and unwholesome fish, of the family Scomb...

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• horse-mackerel

  A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...

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• mackerel-boat

  A stout clinch-worked vessel, with a large fore-sail, sprit-sail, and mizen. ...

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• mackerel-sky

  See cirro-cumulus. ...

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• mackerel-sture

  A northern name for the tunny, Scomber thynnus. ...

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• spanish mackerel

  An old Cornish name for the tunny, or a scomber, larger than the horse-mackerel. ...

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• stoer-mackerel

  A name for the young tunny-fish. ...

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