caplin
Americannoun
noun
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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
The caplin last six weeks and disappear, to be superseded in August by the squid, of which the cod are very fond.
From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.
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)
At Ramah I had purchased some dried caplin for dog food for the night.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon
Cod follow the caplin schools, and this is the season when the fisherman, if he is so fortunate as to own a trap, reaps his greatest harvest.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon
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