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Definition of Cusks
1. cusk [n] - See also: cusk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cusks
Literary usage of Cusks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This ¡3 partly but not wholly obviated by packing in cusks, which, however are
dear and not always obtainable. As usually made, white salt from rock salt ..."
2. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"In the usual fish the body, although it may bend to a limited degree, is more or
less stiff, and it can be made quite rigid; but in the eels, cusks, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... PERFORMANCE — Ex- cusks FOR NON PERFORMANCE. That other subcontractors, as
well as the principal contractor, were prevented from completing the grading ..."
4. A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1868)
"... trouts, carps and other white fishes, cusks, sculpins, <fec., I have asked
myself, while studying the fishes of the Amazons, what analogy could exist ..."
5. A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1868)
"... trouts, carps and other white fishes, cusks, sculpins, <fec., I have asked
myself, while studying the fishes of the Amazons, what analogy could exist ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1865)
"Provided further, That 11 ben cusks, barrels or other vessels are used holding
more than forty-five gallons, the excess shall be paid for at the rate of one ..."
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