Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small shark, Galeus canis, common on the coasts of the North Atlantic.
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The hound-shark, the basking-shark, and the port-beagle were not less loyal; and these, the most perfectly organized of my cartilaginous tribes, handed me over to the deep-swimming Norwegian 'sea-rat.'
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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