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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: short for marlinspike; from the appearance of its beak Date: 1917 any of several large marine billfishes (genera Makaira and Tetrapturus) that are notable sport fishes

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US any of various large long-nosed marine fish of the family Istophoridae, esp. the blue marlin Makaira nigricans. Etymology: MARLINSPIKE, with ref. to its pointed snout

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Marlin Mar"lin, n. (Zo["o]l.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa h[ae]matica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.