Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bergall .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small marine fish; -- also called
cunner .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
marine fish , thecunner .
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Examples
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Ay, there must be something strangely entrancing in dragging the shoal waters with a hand-line, for unsuspicious, easily duped members of the acanthopterygian tribe of fishes, -- under which alarming denomination come, I believe, nearly all the finny fellows to be met with on these sand-banks, from the bluefish to the burgall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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