spearfishes

Variant of spearfish

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noun pl. spearfish, spearfishes

any billfish; esp., any of a genus (Tetrapturus, family Istiophoridae) of large, percoid, food and game fishes of the open seas

intransitive verb

to fish with a spear or spear-thrusting device ()
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