cunner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cunner
First recorded in 1595–1605; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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He predicted that removing the old traps will help the populations of various fish species including tautog, rock crabs, whelk, cunner and sea bass, as well as the remaining lobsters.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
To sit for hours blinking in the sun, waiting for a cunner to come along and take his hook, was as exhaustive a kind of labor as he cared to engage in.
From A Rivermouth Romance by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Feels like a cunner is stealing my bait.
From Smugglers' Reef by John Blaine
It may be that the first hook was taken by some other fish, but the cunner got in ahead on the bait.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
For the first bait of the first fisherman that ever threw hook into the North Atlantic was taken by a cunner.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
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