swordfish
sawrd fish
- n flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
- n large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
- Consider the swordfish: angler's prize, gourmet's delight, fisherman's livelihood.
- Off Miami, the bold pursue giant swordfish by night Summertime, and the fishing is easy.
- Two fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward.