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Pollack

noun

United States filmmaker (born in 1934). Synonym: Sydney Pollack.

Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish. Synonym: pollock.

Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod. Synonyms: Pollachius pollachius, pollock.

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"Pollack" Quotes from Famous Books

... were days—when George and the Little Commodore and the Looby and myself used to row out with a swinging stroke at sundown to Elm-beech-tree[13] and Conger Pool. The choosing of the mark; the careful heaving of the sling-stone; the blinn, skate, pollack, spider-crabs, and conger eels, we used to catch; the fights with the conger in the dark or by the light of matches or of an old lantern that blew out when it was most wanted; the absurd way the crew ...

— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

... what his emotions might be. But Miss Pease, always susceptible, had a delightful cry all to herself, and Isaiah, retiring to the hall, blew his nose with a vigor which, as Captain Shad said afterwards, "had the Pollack Rip foghorn soundin' like a deef and ...

— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln

Words linked to "Pollack" : gadoid, Pollachius, saltwater fish, film maker, film producer, genus Pollachius, Pollachius pollachius, movie maker, filmmaker, gadoid fish