cusk-eel
凹凸不平,凹凸纹,凹凸棒,凹凸不平的小山包
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plural cusk-eel, cusk-eels.
- : any of several eellike, marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, having the ventral fins located under the throat and so modified as to resemble barbels.
Examples
Raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.
Today, Eel Pie Island is home to a mellower bunch: retirees, artists, and the like.
These are just a few of the famous visitors to Eel Pie Island, a centuries-old refuge for musicians, hippies, and writers.
For Cusk, it is “a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces.”
Cusk knows this, of course; she is of the cerebral breed that is used to thinking their way out of any situation.
Stanley Hall also went for pastime, and Billy Towler slid into the boat like an eel, without leave, just as it pushed off.
Your Caroline, so enticing five hours before in this very chamber where she frisked about like an eel, is now a junk of lead.
Swaying tufts of vegetation marked the rapid passage of eel-like bodies.
We succeeded in taking an eel, a few crabs, and a small quantity of snails.
The lighter man was slippery as an eel, as hard to hit as a Corbett.