garfish
[ gahr-fish ]
noun,plural (especially collectively) gar·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gar·fish·es.
gar1.
Origin of garfish
11400–50; 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.
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British Dictionary definitions for garfish
garfish
/ (ˈɡɑːˌfɪʃ) /
nounplural -fish or -fishes
another name for garpike (def. 1)
an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes
any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw
Origin of garfish
1Old English gār spear + fish
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