gray mullet

American  

noun

1. mullet.

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gray mullet

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

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)

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)

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