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
He lived with the dry caplin that I took when I was searching in the pinnace, and did eat dry new land fish.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Morley, Henry
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 Duncan, Norman
To dream of cod or caplin is a sign of rain Newfoundland.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson)
Every day and night the tide ebbed and flowed, and every tide left its contribution in windrows of dead herring and caplin, with scattered crabs and mussels for a relish, like plums in a pudding.
From Northern Trails, Book I. by Long, William Joseph
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