cusk-eel

[ kuhsk-eel ]

/ ˈkʌskˌil /

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noun, plural (especially collectively) cusk-eel, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) cusk-eels.

any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.

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Words nearby cusk-eel

Cushitic, Cushman, cushty, cushy, cusk, cusk-eel, CUSO, cusp, cuspal, cuspate, cusped

How to use cusk-eel in a sentence

Raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.
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Today, Eel Pie Island is home to a mellower bunch: retirees, artists, and the like.
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These are just a few of the famous visitors to Eel Pie Island, a centuries-old refuge for musicians, hippies, and writers.
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For Cusk, it is “a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces.”
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Cusk knows this, of course; she is of the cerebral breed that is used to thinking their way out of any situation.
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Stanley Hall also went for pastime, and Billy Towler slid into the boat like an eel, without leave, just as it pushed off.
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Your Caroline, so enticing five hours before in this very chamber where she frisked about like an eel, is now a junk of lead.
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Swaying tufts of vegetation marked the rapid passage of eel-like bodies.
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We succeeded in taking an eel, a few crabs, and a small quantity of snails.
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The lighter man was slippery as an eel, as hard to hit as a Corbett.
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