Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A teleostean acanthopterygious fish, Anarrhichas lupus: so called from its ferocious aspect and habits.
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Oh ive used mustads circle hooks for commercial hallibut and wolf-fish fishing and they catch more fish cos they hook in better than normal shaped hooks (balance point etc.), so they cath more fish!
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Oh ive used mustads circle hooks for commercial hallibut and wolf-fish fishing and they catch more fish cos they hook in better than normal shaped hooks (balance point etc.), so they cath more fish!
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Instantly he blew upon a golden whistle, and at the summons a band of wolf-fish appeared and dashed after the prisoners.
The Sea Fairies 1887
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But Aquareine advanced upon them with her golden sword, and every touch of the charmed weapon instantly killed an enemy, so that one by one the wolf-fish rolled over upon their backs and sank helplessly downward through the water, leaving the prisoners free to continue their way toward the opening in the dome.
The Sea Fairies 1887
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Schonfeld relates this wolf-fish will seize on an anchor and leave the marks of its teeth in it, and Steller mentions one on the coast of Kamschatka, which he saw lay hold of a cutlass, with which a man was attempting to kill it, and break it to bits as if it had been made of glass.
Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The palate of this ancient ganoid is furnished with a curious dental apparatus, formed apparenly, like that of the recent wolf-fish, for the purpose of crushing shells.
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We caught too, at different times, numbers of small fish, much resembling a smelt, and once drew out a wolf-fish.
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"toad-stones" mounted in ancient rings are really the teeth of a fish has been already recorded by the R.v.R. H. Newell ( "The Zoology of the English Poets," 1845), but he seems to be mistaken in identifying them with those of the wolf-fish (Anarrhicas).
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