▪ I. † sheath-fish Obs.
[f. sheath1 + fish n.]
The razor-fish.
| 1602 Carew Cornwall i. 32 The Sheath, or Rasor-fish, resembles in length and bignesse a mans finger. 1603 Owen Pembrokesh. (1892) 126 Sheth or haft fishe. 1672 Phil. Trans. VII. 5022 A Sheath-fish, which is very plentiful in New-England; a delicate fish, cover'd with a thin shell and of the colour of a Musle. 1681 Grew Musæum i. §vi. ii. 143 The Sheath-Fish, commonly so called from its similitude to the sheath of a Knife. Solen. Vnguis. |
▪ II. † sheath-fish
Obs.: see saithe.
▪ III. sheath-fish
see sheat-fish.