Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tautog

Tautog , noun

[The plural of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.]

(Zoology) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.