conger

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONGER, noun [Latin , Gr. ] The sea-eel; a large species of eel, sometimes growing to the length of ten feet, and weighing a hundred pounds. In Cornwall, England, it is an article of commerce, being shipped to Spain and Portugal.
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