Swordfish

Quick meaning: Swordfish is a noun meaning A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

Meaning

A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

More Meanings

1. To fish for swordfish.
2. A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.

Example Sentences

One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

Word Forms

• swordfishes
• swordfishing
• swordfished

Synonyms for swordfish

Depending on context, synonyms include swordie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fish, xiphias, turtle, broadbill, biplanes, steaks.

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