Citations: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.


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 * 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,

"old-wife chebogs"

 * 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. "


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 * 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.

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 * 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 9781439670552):
 * Known as porgies, pogies, bonyfish, mossbunkers, bug fish, fat-backs, whitefish, bunkers, old-wives, chebogs or greentails, these middling-size fish were ...