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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[The pl. of

taut

, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams

sheep’s heads

, and written by him

tautaúog

(Zool.)

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

[Written also

tautaug

tautog ‎(plural tautogs)

A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).
- 2007 August 22, Ellen Barry And James Estrin, “Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs”, in New York Times:
  The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish.