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Definition of Seecatch
1. n. A full-grown male fur seal.
Definition of Seecatch
1. an adult male fur seal [n -CATCHIE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seecatch
Literary usage of Seecatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"Therefore a seecatch can not live less than thirty years and a female not ...
ami who knows of one seecatch (known by a bald head) which iu that time had ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"... till he finally quits it at the close of summer, the ' seecatch ' neither eats
nor drinks, and it is no wonder that, when his season's watching is over, ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"This class of seal is known to the natives as the " seecatch." His bodily weight
when he first emerges from the sea is at least 400 pounds, and older and ..."
4. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"... toward one another and other amphibious anima!?. struck me as a line of singular
contrast with the undaunted bearing of a fur seal "seecatch," which, ..."
5. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"... struck me as a line of singular contrast with the undaunted bearing of a fur-
seal "seecatch," which, though being not half the size or possessing ..."
6. A Little Brother to the Bear: And Other Animal Studies by William Joseph Long (1903)
"... ir , i ,, f, ir'icty they must be mindful of the enemies tl\at As I rose a
bit higher to SeeCatch them' that were very near me but sor- meadow-grass, ..."
7. Report on the Condition of the Fur-seal Fisheries of the Pribylov Islands in by Henry Wood Elliott, Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1893)
"... then, as Buffon remarks, ' animals can live seven times the length of the
period required for their maturity '; therefore, a ' seecatch ' cannot live ..."
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