grey mullet
Britishnoun
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I like to use sea bream but you can also use grey mullet, or pike if you happen to catch one.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2014
The most interesting and tantalizing inhabitant of the Broad is the grey mullet, large shoals of which may be seen disporting themselves on the surface.
From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher
A brilliant gold fish, weighing about three pounds, and something like a grey mullet in flavour, was perhaps the best.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
He would fish off Penzance Pier for grey mullet, catching more than his companions.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser
Turbot, salmon, salmon trout, Berwick and fresh water trout, red and grey mullet, Johndories, skate, thornback, maids, soles, flounders, eels, lobsters, crawfish, prawns, and shrimps.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
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