gurnard

[ gur-nerd ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) gur·nard, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gur·nards.
  1. any marine fish of the family Triglidae, having an armored, spiny head and the front part of the pectoral fins modified for crawling on the sea bottom.

Origin of gurnard

1
1275–1325; Middle English <Old French gornard, probably literally, grunter ≪ Latin grunnīre to grunt

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How to use gurnard in a sentence

  • They lie above the limestone at gurnard, Thorness, and Hamstead.

  • The buoy was reached, and the line once more hauled aboard, this time with a grey gurnard on the first hook.

    Menhardoc | George Manville Fenn
  • A name given to the crooner, crowner, or gray gurnard (Trigla gurnardus).

    The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth
  • Vaterland; Fa′ther-lash′er, a name applied to two bull-heads found on the British coasts, belonging to the gurnard family.

  • Mackerel is what you hope for; gurnard you will put up with; pollack will not be caught in any numbers so far from the shore.

    Yachting Vol. 1 | Various.

British Dictionary definitions for gurnard

gurnard

gurnet (ˈɡɜːnɪt)

/ (ˈɡɜːnəd) /


nounplural -nard, -nards, -net or -nets
  1. any European marine scorpaenoid fish of the family Triglidae, such as Trigla lucerna (tub or yellow gurnard), having a heavily armoured head and finger-like pectoral fins

Origin of gurnard

1
C14: from Old French gornard grunter, from grognier to grunt, from Latin grunnīre

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