tautog
a dark-colored wrasse, Tautoga onitis, a popular game and food fish inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to South Carolina.
Origin of tautog
1- Also called blackfish .
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How to use tautog in a sentence
By ten o'clock there were six dozen perch in the basket, besides three handsome tautog and half a dozen sea flounders.
Little By Little | William Taylor AdamsYes, more too; I left six dozen perch and three handsome tautog in his kitchen just now.
Little By Little | William Taylor AdamsShe could remain in the cabin of the motor boat while the others were fishing off the rocks for tautog and rock-bass.
Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point | Alice B. EmersonEither Mr. tautog had been very, very careful when he nibbled the bait, or the said bait had slipped off.
Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point | Alice B. EmersonIt was a damp little hollow, and Mr. tautog could not flop out into the sea again.
Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point | Alice B. Emerson
British Dictionary definitions for tautog
/ (tɔːˈtɒɡ) /
a large dark-coloured wrasse, Tautoga onitis, of the North American coast of the Atlantic Ocean: used as a food fish: Also called: blackfish
Origin of tautog
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