Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Saury

Saury , noun

[Etymol. uncertain.]

(Zoology) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.