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Shiner   /ʃˈaɪnər/   Listen
noun
Shiner  n.  That which shines. Specifically:
(a)
A luminary.
(b)
A bright piece of money. (Slang) "Has she the shiners, d' ye think?"
(c)
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
(d)
(Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), the silver moonfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... portion and whole eastern shore are admirably adapted, by deep water and soft marl bottom, to the coregoni and salmon trout, and nearer shore, by rocky bottom and sharp ledges, to the rock bass, black bass, and yellow perch. Large fish find an abundant food supply in the "lake shiner," an exquisitely beautiful creature and dainty morsel, about ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall



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