swordfish/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/EtymologyFrom Middle English swerdfysche, from Old English *sweordfisċ. Equivalent to sword + fish.nounA large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.“Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.verbTo fish for swordfish.