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Tarpon vs Tarpot - What's the difference?

tarpon | tarpot |

As nouns the difference between tarpon and tarpot

is that tarpon is any of several fishes of the family family: Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish while tarpot is a pot used for carrying tar.

tarpon

English

Noun

  • Any of several fishes of the family or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.

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    tarpot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pot used for carrying tar.
  • * 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
    • “Oh, that’s it,” said Oak, jumping up, and dimissing for the present his thoughts on poor Fanny. “You are a good boy to run and tell me, Cain, and you shall smell a large plum pudding some day as a treat. But, before we go, Cainy, bring the tarpot , and we’ll mark this lot and have done with ’em.”
  • * 1964 , Robert Carse, The seafarers: a history of maritime America, 1620-1820
    • Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.