3. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark. [Obs.]
South.
Baskin shark, Liver shark, Nurse shark, Oil shark, Sand shark, Tiger
shark, etc. See under Basking, Liver, etc. See also Dogfish, Houndfish,
Notidanian, and Tope. -- Gray shark, the sand shark. -- Hammer-headed
shark. See Hammerhead. -- Port Jackson shark. See Cestraciont. -- Shark
barrow, the eggcase of a shark; a sea purse. -- Shark ray. Same as
Angel fish (a), under Angel. -- Thrasher shark, or Thresher shark, a
large, voracious shark. See Thrasher. -- Whale shark, a huge harmless
shark (Rhinodon typicus) of the Indian Ocean. It becomes sixty feet or
more in length, but has very small teeth.
Shark, v. t. [Of uncertain origin; perhaps fr. shark, n., or perhaps
related to E. shear (as hearken to hear), and originally meaning, to
clip off. Cf. Shirk.] To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
[Obs.] Shak.
Shark, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sharked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sharking.] 1.
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
Bp. Earle.