Definition of Coalfish

1. n. The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

Definition of Coalfish

1. Noun. any of several blackish fish, especially the pollack or sablefish ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coalfish

1. a blackish fish [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalfish

coalesced
coalescence
coalescences
coalescency
coalescent
coalescents
coalescer
coalescers
coalesces
coalescing
coalface
coalfaces
coalfield
coalfields
coalfired
coalfish (current term)
coalfishes
coalgebra
coalgebraic
coalgebras
coalheaver
coalheavers
coalheaving
coalhole
coalholes
coalier
coaliest
coalification
coalifications
coalified

Literary usage of Coalfish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"Mr. Couch in his MS. considers the Green Cod as the young of the coalfish, with which it certainly agrees in both the particulars in which it differs from ..."

2. Sea fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"About three dozen pollack and coalfish, varying from ^ Ib. to 6 Ibs. ; three coalfish being caught at once (on a light single gut cast), weighing together ..."

3. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an by Nathan Haskell Dole (1922)
"The dusky pigment of the skin soils the hands, and hence the name of coalfish: whether they feed on submarine coal-beds, Yarrell does not say; ..."

4. Deep-sea Fishing and Fishing-boats: An Account of the Practical Working of by Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth (1874)
"Advantage is taken by the fishermen of the ravenous propensities of the cod and coalfish, when following the shoals of herrings, to obtain a good supply of ..."

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