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Dogfish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A name given to several species of shark, as the spotted shark or greater dogfish the piked dogfish etc.

Dogfish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

2. The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

3. The burbot of Lake Erie.