Bible Dictionaries
Tautog

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tautog'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tautog.html. 1828.