OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15493

swordfish

/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
albacora • alfanje • espadarte • jifia • pez emperador • pez espada
A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
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.…