broad-finned

Occasionally the gay music of the bands would relieve the dull routine and cause the spirits to rise under the effects of some enlivening waltz or stirring patriotic air; or entering a school of flying fish the men would be entertained to see these broad-finned creatures dart from the waves like arrows from the bow, and after a graceful flight of perhaps near two hundred yards drop again into the sea; but taken altogether it was a voyage that furnishes little for the historian.

The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward

"Is there anythink in the whole world," she would say, "more crafty nor one o 'those old broad-finned trouts in Knockers' Llyn?

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873