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lucy

nouncommon in dialogue

The northern pike (a kind of fish).

noun

  1. 1

    archaicThe northern pike (a kind of fish).

    That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.

Etymology

From Latin lūcius.

Forms

plural
lucies
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