marlin

marlin
marlin large marine game-fish, 1917, shortening of marlinspike fish (1907), from marlinspike, name of a pointed iron tool used by sailors (see MARLINSPIKE (Cf. marlinspike)). The fish was so called from the shape of its elongated upper jaw.

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