NOUN
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
How To Use drumfish In A Sentence
- On Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's two plantations on the South Carolina coast, as appears from his diary of 1818, a detail of four slaves was shifted from the field work each week for a useful holiday in angling for the huge drumfish which abounded in those waters; and their catches augmented the fare of the white and black families alike. [ American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
- The majority of fishes have no lungs and of course no vocal chords, but certain species, such as the drumfish, are able to distend special sacs with gas or air, or in other ways to produce sounds. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
- Fourth course finds a dish of drumfish with pickled okra, braised tomatoes, chorizo and fromage blanc grits. Columnist: Keith Groller
- We enjoyed the French Quarter, ate blackened drumfish at K-Paul's and saw post-Katrina reconstruction all over town. Rockford Register Star Home RSS
