Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepheads
Literary usage of Sheepheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Journal of Orthodontia and Oral Surgery (1919)
"Clams usually are used for this, the bait attracting sheepheads. ... He caught
30 sheepheads weighing all the way from one to five pounds. ..."
2. Annual Report of the Health Officer by District of Columbia Health Dept, District of Columbia Board of Health (1873)
"Spanish Mackerel, salt-water Taylors, sheepheads, and Spotts. August—Rock, White
and Yellow Perch. Spanish Mackerel, stilt-water Taylors, ..."
3. Historical Collections of South Carolina: Embracing Many Rare and Valuable by Bartholomew Rivers Carroll (1836)
"... Bass, Drum, Whitings, Trouts, Herrings, Mullets, Rocks, Sturgeons, Shads,
sheepheads, Plaice, Flounders, small Turtel, Crabs, Oysters, Muscles, Cockles, ..."
4. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"The Indian word is the plural of taut and was really translated in the " Key to
Indian Languages" as sheepheads, the name of a near cousin also caught in ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... saucers, sheepheads, cheat», plack-pyes. From a passage in Knox's Hist, it
seems probable that the custom of four-hour» had its origin in the tavern. ..."
6. London in the Jacobite Times by Doran (John) (1877)
"Let his glorious kingship dine, On gude sheepheads an1 haggis fine, Gi'e him
whiskey 'stead o' wine. Sawney, &c. Show him a' your buildings braw, ..."
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