spearfish

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Etymology

From spear +‎ fish.

Noun

spearfish (plural spearfishes or spearfish)

  1. Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
  2. Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
  3. Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus

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Verb

spearfish (third-person singular simple present spearfishes, present participle spearfishing, simple past and past participle spearfished)

  1. To try to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.
    • 1979 July 2, “Outdoors: Northeast Spearfishing”, in The New York Times‎:
      Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.
    • 2018 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea”, in The New York Times‎:
      A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi.
    • 2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times‎:
      He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.
  2. To fish for spearfish by any method.

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