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Definition of Scuppaugs
1. scuppaug [n] - See also: scuppaug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scuppaugs
Literary usage of Scuppaugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Storer states that in the year 1831 or 1832 a smack-load of scuppaugs arrived in
Boston. A portion of them were purchased by subscription among the ..."
2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"scuppaugs. Small fishes of our Atlantic coast, very abundant and furnishing much
food in the New England and Middle States. ..."
3. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855)
"In a number of the Nantucket Enquirer, July 8th, 1837,1 find the following: " A
few days since, there were caught at one haul, 241 blue-fish, 108 scuppaugs ..."
4. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"scuppaugs. Small fishes of our Atlantic coast, very abundant and furnishing much
food in the New England and Middle States. ..."
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