Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The suckfish, Echeneis remora.
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- noun obsolete A
remora .
Etymologies
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From suck + stone.
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Examples
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_Remora_, the sea Lamprey or suckstone, believed to check the course of ships by clinging to their keels.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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There are two fish, the suckstone (` remora ') and the jumprock (another sucker, native to the southeastern U.S.), and a worm, the lockdor.
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‘suckstone’ or the ‘lickstone’; and the anemone the ‘windflower’.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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