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Definition of Horse mackerel

1. Noun. Largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics.

2. Noun. Large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe.

3. Noun. A California food fish.

Definition of Horse mackerel

1. Noun. A large fish; variously the Australian bonito (''Sarda australis''), the pilot fish (''Naucrates ductor''), or the jack mackerel (genus ''Trachurus''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Horse mackerel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"horse mackerel.—Another species belonging to the mackerel family is the horse ... The horse mackerel is a fish of very great size and is the very largest of ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"See CALM LATITUDES. HORSELESS CARRIAGE. See AUTOMOBILE. HORSE-MACKEREL. A name given to several species of fishes of the family ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... a "fossilised lunkhead" The term lunkhead is usually applied by sporting men to a very sorry style of horse, but never, we believe, to a horse mackerel. ..."

4. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1875)
"While in Gaspe I sketched the head and tail of a horse mackerel which had just been harpooned in the Bay of Gaspe by Thomas Morland, Esq. The fish weighed ..."

5. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... seriously—Dancing verboten—Economy in uniforms—Meat " speak-easies "—" Horse mackerel " in disguise—All dogs at work—Potatoes on the corner-lot—Crossing ..."

6. Moose-hunting, Salmon-fishing and Other Sketches of Sport: Being the Record by T. R. Pattillo (1902)
"... pursued thither by their relentless foes the albacores, sometimes called the horse-mackerel, from their great resemblance to the mackerel—in fact, ..."

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