Swordfish

Definitions

1. A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
   countable, uncountable
2. A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get⟳ one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”

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