[ad. Du. snoek pike: cf. SNOEK.] A name given to various fishes, esp. the sergeant-fish, Elacate canada, and the robalo, Centropomus undecimalis.

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1697.  Dampier, Voy. (1699), 243. The Fish I observed here mostly, were what we call Snooks, neither a Sea fish nor fresh Water fish, but very numerous in these salt Lakes.

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1725.  Sloane, Jamaica, II. 288. Snook. It was taken at Passage fort.

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1827.  O. W. Roberts, Voy. Centr. Amer., 156. It [Caratasca Lagoon] abounds in various sorts of fish of the finest description, particularly mullet, calapaner, snoak, cavallee, and also manatee.

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1858.  Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Snook, a common fish, both of the sea and the rivers of the West Indies, the Centropomus undecimalis.

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1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 170. Model of Fresh-water Fishpot, for taking mullet, snook, &c.

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  Snook, variant of SNOKE v. and SNOOKS.

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