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Poet Gets Fish By A Whisker Crossword Clue

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noun

• facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)

• United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)

30%6A type of fish with long whisker-like sensory organs
noun

• slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish

30%8 Black or dark brown fish with whisker-like barbels
noun

• freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines

• any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

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