How to pronounce“shark”in English
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Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
“The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, …. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.”
Meat of this animal, consumed as food.
“Shark has traditionally, although in some secrecy, been a staple food in European, American and Australian food.”
To fish for sharks.
Of a university student who is not a fresher (first-year undergraduate), and especially towards the start of the academic year:
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