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Definition of Cunners
1. cunner [n] - See also: cunner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunners
| cuneonavicular ligaments cuneoscaphoid cunette cunettes cuneus cunicular cuniculi cuniculture cuniculus cuniform | cuniforms cunjevoi cunjevois cunji cunner cunners (current term) cunnies cunning cunning folk |
Literary usage of Cunners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England by Robert Carter (1864)
"... OF THE cunners.— LOBSTER-FISHING. —THE ASSYRIAN STARTLED. THE town of Rockport,
in one of whose harbors we brought the Helen to anchor about sunset on ..."
2. Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard (1920)
"If you ask a Hingham boy how the cunners are biting he will be likely to ...
Down at Newport, RI, they catch cunners and if you talk salt-water perch to ..."
3. Studies in English Composition: With Lessons in Language and Rhetoric by Harriet Louise Keeler, Emma C. Davis (1891)
"I am going to fish for cunners, and keep my line short." And she perched herself
on the quarter, baited her hook carefully, and threw it over with a ..."
4. The Bookman (1898)
"It is to be feared that the " flounder" class will not listen to Mr. Whig- ham's
counsel; but to the three remaining classes, especially the "cunners," the ..."
5. American Colonial Tracts Monthly by John Smith (1898)
"... birds, crabs, and mussels, or all of them, for taking at a low water. And in
the harbors we frequented, a little boy might take of cunners and ..."
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