caplin
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early in the season, directly the ice breaks up, a little fish called the caplin, which is about the size of a smelt, runs inshore in great schools of countless millions, to spawn.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Dillon Wallace
Herring and caplin had long since drifted away into unknown depths, where the tides flowed endlessly over them and brought never a one ashore.
From Northern Trails, Book I. by William Joseph Long
It is a great time also for the cod, which feed on the caplin, and for the fishermen who catch the cod.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Dillon Wallace
At any rate, off he hied through the wind and snow to Tom Tot’s cottage: where, as fortune had it, Tom Tot was mending a caplin seine.
From Doctor Luke of the Labrador by Norman Duncan
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