spearfish

plural spearfishes

1. Any of the genus Tetrapturus of marlins, a type of fish with the upper jaw elongated into a spearlike bill.
2. Any striped marlin (Kajikia audax)
3. Any quillback (Carpioides cyprinus

present singular third person spearfishes · participle present spearfishing · participle past spearfished · past spearfished

1. intransitivetransitiveTo attempt to catch a fish using a spear or spear gun.

   A Bajau diver spearfishes in Sulawesi.

   2018 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea”, in The New York Times

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   Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.

   1979 February 7, “Outdoors: Northeast Spearfishing”, in The New York Times

   He always said freediving was the best way to spearfish because it required enormous patience and concentration, without the benefit of a scuba tank, to hold one’s position until the right prey came along.

   2020 July 14, Tom Mashberg, “Jay Riffe, Spearfishing King, Is Dead at 82”, in The New York Times

2. intransitivetransitiveTo fish for spearfish by any method.

1. A city in South Dakota, united States of America.