stockfish

plural stockfishes · alternative obsolete stock-fish · alternative obsolete stokvis · alternative obsolete stockphyshe

1. countableuncountableCod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.

   So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.

   1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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   We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed

   1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations

plural stockfishes · alternative obsolete stock-fish · alternative obsolete stokvis · alternative obsolete stockphyshe

1. South AfricaThe shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)

   Synonyms: South African hake