seawolf

Definitions

1. A strong-jawed North Atlantic fish of wolffish family Anarhichadidae, Anarhichas lupus.
2. An elephant seal.
   archaic
3. Any of various dangerous people and animals that attack at sea.

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Examples

“The seawolf twisted onto itself, its jaws clopping together near its own⟳ tail.”

“Benjamin stood, gasping for breath and looking down at the dead corsair. "You were a worthy foe, seawolf," he murmured regretfully.”

“Kebisu was regarded as a ferocious and cunning seawolf, who had raised his diminutive island to the state of marine fortress without so much as erecting a brush stockade; he had no fixed defences.”

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