Meaning of sea hog | Babel Free

Definitions

The porpoise.

archaic

Examples

“"[O]ne would have⟳ judged from its motley hues, exhibiting the consistence and appearance of variegated fancy soap, that it was the flesh of the porpoise or sea-hog, and had been an inhabitant of the ocean rather than of the stye."”

“The story of the transformation of the mariners is supposed by Bochart to have⟳ been founded on the adventure of certain merchants from the coast of Etruria, whose vessel had the figure⟳ of a dolphin at the prow, or rather of the fish⟳ called ‘tursio,’ probably the porpoise, or sea-hog.”

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