garfish

[ gahr-fish ]

noun,plural (especially collectively) gar·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gar·fish·es.

Origin of garfish

1
1400–50; late Middle English; compare Old English gār spear

Words Nearby garfish

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How to use garfish in a sentence

  • He was a lank, bony garfish of a man, with a white goatee aggressively protruding from his lower lip.

    Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
  • The anacondas and alligators and snapping turtles and garfish with teeth sharp as sharks?

    The Peril Finders | George Manville Fenn

British Dictionary definitions for garfish

garfish

/ (ˈɡɑːˌfɪʃ) /


nounplural -fish or -fishes
  1. another name for garpike (def. 1)

  2. an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes

  1. any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw

Origin of garfish

1
Old English gār spear + fish

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