schnapper
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of schnapper
1820–30; variant of snapper; sch < German
Example Sentences
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Then, when maybe they have caught schnapper, red bream and parrot-fish, they drift among the turtle, and the sport begins.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
In the maw there were, besides a large quantity of dismembered squid of great size, a number of fish, such as rock-cod, barracouta, schnapper, and the like, whose presence there was a revelation to me.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
Next to the lordly and brilliant-hued schnapper, the big black bream of the deep harbour waters of the east coast of Australia is the finest fish of the bream species that have ever been caught.
From The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 by Louis Becke
Every now and then either of us would pull up a great pink slab-sided schnapper, a glistening silvery mullet, or a white-bellied whapuka; we were in a good pitch, and the fish were biting freely.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
Old Colonial goes on to tell the tale of Te Puke Tapu, in the intervals of hauling up schnapper.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
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