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/ˈkəsk/
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NOUN
- elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
- the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters
How To Use cusk In A Sentence
- You can have sea bass, lobster, herring, turbot, sturgeon cusks, haddock, mullet, eels, crabs, oysters and mussels.
- McCusker, Gray, and McEvoy were proving too hot to handle, Derry found fouling the only way to stop them.
- It is the lake cusk or freshwater ling and could be utilized on our tables; but the wolffish, the rock blenny, the angler or goosefish, the skate, and twenty other kinds, are of great value as food. Canada's Fishery Resources
- While Cusk suspected a social conspiracy designed to keep women producing, Enright too has a nose for peer-group propaganda.
- McCuskey believes the shift in flags will start from September when shipowners traditionally make arrangements to renew or reflag from the following January.
- Burbot, commonly referred to as ‘cusk,’ is the only truly freshwater member of the cod family, Gadidae.
- My plans for Hamish had been vaguely incorporeal: I had imagined him following me around, unbodied, free of want, but as soon as we arrived Lisa had placed him implacably under her own jurisdiction, like an empire appropriating a small, suitable colony. — from In the Fold, by Rachel Cusk (Little, Brown) A Close Read
- It is the lake cusk or freshwater ling and could be utilized on our tables; but the wolffish, the rock blenny, the angler or goosefish, the skate, and twenty other kinds, are of great value as food. Canada's Fishery Resources
- There was also a few hake, cusks and a few lone small tilefish were caught.
- The cusk-eel oscillogram, frequency and pulse data suggested to Sprague and Loczkovich (in press) that the cusk-eel may be the chatterer source.
