gray mullet

American  

noun

1. mullet.

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gray mullet

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)

The gray mullet, Mugil capito, and the red mullet, Mullus surmuletus, are the most common on the British coast.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He looks, on the whole, like a gray mullet, with a large blunt head, out of which stand, almost like horns, the eyes, from which he takes his name. 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles