Lexicographical Neighbors of Seecatchie
Literary usage of Seecatchie
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)
"That by the 10th or 12th of June all the male stations on the rookeries have been
mapped out and fought for, and held in waiting by the " seecatchie. ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"... the greater portion of the " seecatchie " who first established themselves in
the front rank have a comfortable little harem of from fifteen to twenty ..."
3. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"The " seecatchie " under six years of age, although hovering about the sea-margins
of the breeding grounds, do not engage in much fighting there ; it is the ..."
4. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"The " seecatchie " under six years of age, although hovering about the sea-margins
of the breeding grounds, do not engage in much fighting there ; it is the ..."
5. Report on the Condition of the Fur-seal Fisheries of the Pribylov Islands in by Henry Wood Elliott, Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1893)
"c If the male seal cannot become a bull (' seecatchie ') earlier than the fifth
year, then, as Buffon remarks, ' animals can live seven times the length of ..."
6. 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)
"... varying in age from one summer to four or five, and not yet arrived at the
dignity of ' seecatchie.' They are called ' bachelors '—in Russ ..."
7. 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)
"Late in April or early in May, depending upon the character of the season, the
breeding males, bulls, or " seecatchie," first return to their resorts from ..."
8. 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)
"... of all sorts of seals not required, including seecatchie and females. It is
also known that the driving and killing in the early part of the season of ..."
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