Definition of "garpike" []

• See gar1. (noun)

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• "The ganoids of which the sturgeon and garpike are examples, with heavy plates or scales."
• "The garpike as he saw it, with amplifications from the Indians as they had seen it, gave him the subject for a good fish story."