horn-fish
1. The garfish, Belone vulgaris, so called from its long projecting beak.
| a 1000 Andreas 370 (Gr.) Hornfisc pleᵹode, glad ᵹeond garsecg. 1599 Minsheu Sp. Dict., Hornefish, enxarraco, xarraco. 1611 Florio, Cornuto..Also the Horne-fish. 1752 Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 223 We call it the Gar-fish, and, in some places, the Horn-fish. |
2. The sauger or sand-pike, Stizostedium canadense.
| 1885 J. S. Kingsley Stand. Nat. Hist. III. 229 Sauger, sand-pike, gray-pike, blue-pike, and horn-fish, are..designations of a smaller pike-perch, the Stizostedion canadense. |
3. A fish of the family Syngnathidæ; a pipe-fish: so called from the horny texture of the exoskeleton.