gray mullet

American  

noun

1. mullet.

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gray mullet

Silver shad, eels, greedy pike, red and gray mullet, fall in masses into his nets; he has but to choose the finest and largest, and return the others to the waters.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

The tongue-fish, something like a sole, the gray mullet, the hammer-headed shark, and various fish, with vivid scarlet and yellow stripes alternating with black, are eaten, along with cockles, "razor shells," and king-crabs.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

No hunting-shirt is sewed till the bullet has done its errand, nor do men fish for gray mullet with a hook and line.

From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Silver shad, eels, greedy pike, red and gray mullet, swim in shoals into his nets; he has but to choose the finest and largest, and return the others to the waters.

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre

FISH.—Carp, chub, crabs, crayfish, dory, herrings, lobsters, mackerel, red and gray mullet, prawns, salmon, shad, smelts, soles, trout, turbot.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)