caplin
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a great time also for the cod, which feed on the caplin, and for the fishermen who catch the cod.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon
Our folk were waiting for the bait-skiff, which had long been gone for caplin, skippered, this time, by the fool of Twist Tickle.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman
It was a novel sight to watch them in their play, or labor, rather; for they were feeding upon the caplin, pretty little fishes that swarm along these shores at this particular season.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various
At any rate, off he hied through the wind and snow to Tom Tot’s cottage: where, as fortune had it, Tom Tot was mending a caplin seine.
From Doctor Luke of the Labrador by Duncan, Norman
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