Definition of "maskalonge" []

• A kind of pike, Esox nobilior, a fish of the family Esocidæ, the largest and finest of all pikes inhabiting the Great Lake region of North America and the Ohio valley. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Over the gunwale of the banca, in a sparkle of flying spray, silvery in the morning sun, the maskalonge gleamed."
• "They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river."
• "In the bigger waters, maskalonge and, of course, any amount of pike and pickerel."