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spearfish¹

noun spearfishes · 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

verb spearfishes · spearfishing · spearfished

  1. intransitive, transitive To attempt to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun. Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.
  2. intransitive, transitive To fish for spearfish by any method.

Spearfish²

proper noun

  1. A city in South Dakota, united States of America.

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@misc{spearfish_2026,
  title = {spearfish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spearfish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}