spearfishes

Variant of spearfish

spearfish definition

spear·fish (spirfis̸h′)

noun pl. spearfish -·fish′, spearfishes -·fish′es

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 (spear gun)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.