methy

plural methies

1. CanadaUSdatedThe burbot.

   Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]

   1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191

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   The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.

   1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144

   In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.

   1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53