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noun

Marlin n. (Zool.)

The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).

Any of several marine billfishes of the genera Makaira and Tetrapturus, popular as game in sport fishing.

Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

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Etymology of 'Marlin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Marlin" Quotes from Famous Books

... sharpener was used, and proved very satisfactory. Rubber and cotton hose, covered with woven marlin, was used for the bench (3 in. inside diameter, in 50-ft. lengths), for drills (1 in. in diameter, in 25-ft. lengths), and for steam shovels (2 in. in diameter, in 50-ft. lengths). Hose coverings of wound marlin, ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 - The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 • F. Lavis

... and now my dear Mrs. Summerhayes I suppose you will have a hard time wading through my scrawl but I know you will be generous and remember that I went to sea when a little over nine years of age and had my pen been half as often in my hand as a marlin spike, I would now be able to ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

Words linked to "Marlin" : blue marlin, Makaira mitsukurii, black marlin, striped marlin, Makaira mazara, Makaira albida, Makaira marlina, Makaira, billfish, genus Makaira, white marlin