Citations:chebog

English citations of chebog

1897, Charles Thomas Davis, The Manufacture of Leather, page 228:
A fish once eagerly sought for its oil on the Atlantic coast is the menhaden, pogy, mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, as it is variously called, (alose brevoordia menhaden), a member of the herring family, about eight to fourteen inches long.

1953, Fishery Leaflet, page 3:
THE MENHADEN, ALIAS PORGY, FATBACK, MOSSBUNKER, OLD WIFE, BONY-FISH, HARDHEAD, WHITE-FISH, BUG-FISH, CHEBOG ...
1959, Commercial Fisheries Review:
The menhaden, alias porgy, […] bug-fish, chebog, alewife, and yellowtail shad--in short Brevoortia tyrannus--is similar in appearance to the herring, […]

1880, Richard Markham, Aboard the Mavis, page 133:
'What are they?" asked Jack. "Mossbunkers," said Thomas John, "pogies, white-fish, menhaden, bony-fish, fat-backs, alewives, old-wife chebogs, hardheads, greentails. […] "

1980, Sea Frontiers: Bulletin of the International Oceanographic Foundation, volume 26, page 44:
[…] old-wives and old-wife chebogs in Delaware Bay, alewives and bunkers in Chesapeake Bay, and fatbacks in the Carolinas and Georgia.

1911, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, page 48:
chebog (chē-bog'), n. [Of New England Amer. Ind. origin (Narragansett?).] A menhaden.
[that is, in IPA: /tʃi.ˈbɔɡ/]
1879, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Report, page 15:
At Maurice River the Brevoortia is called “old-wife chebog," "chebog" being probably of Indian origin. Thomas Morton , writing in 1632 of the fishes […]
1895, William Charles Harris, The American Angler, page 235:
Chebog, a name for the fish called the mossbunker, or menhaden; from one of the Algonquian dialects of the Eastern States. (The "chebog" is new to fish nomenclature.
2020, Charles H. Lagerbom, Whaling in Maine, Arcadia Publishing (→ISBN):
Known as porgies, pogies, bonyfish, mossbunkers, bug fish, fat-backs, whitefish, bunkers, old-wives, chebogs or greentails, these middling-size fish were ...