tin fish
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tin fish
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Little by little, each class of troutlets learned to stay as far as possible from the tin fish hanging inside the ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly for us.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
They associated painful shocks with the tin fish, and they associated the tin fish with the large live trout.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here is another prosperous seat of the pilchard-fishery, and among its people the favorite toast is to the three Cornish products, "tin, fish, and copper."
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel
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