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VerbarGordius

when they leave the insect and live in water in which they deposit their eggs called also hair eel hairworm and hair snake from the absurd but common and widely diffused notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs

cutlass fish

West Indies having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth called also frostfish saber fish silver eel and improperly swordfish also several related members of the genus Trichiurus It is closely related to snake mackerel

Butterfish

mucus as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast the rock eel and the kelpfish of New Zealand

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Eelfare

A brood of eels

Eelpot

A boxlike structure with funnel shaped traps for catching eels an eelbuck

Eelspear

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels

Electrophoridae

small natural family comprising the electric eels

VerbarGordiacea

A division of nematoid worms including the hairworms or hair eels Gordius and Mermis See Gordius and Illustration in Appendix

Sniggle

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places

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