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Definition of Stockfish
1. Noun. Fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt.
Definition of Stockfish
1. n. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
Definition of Stockfish
1. Noun. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt. ¹
2. Noun. (South Africa) The South African hake. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stockfish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stockfish
Literary usage of Stockfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"stockfish is used by Shakspere ; cod-fish dried but not salted are still called
... Gesner says that " stockfish is so called from the stock of wood (' a ..."
2. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"See stockfish. Stola (stole), 180, 503. Stoles, 478, 568. See Stola, Stolla.
Stolla (stole), 185. Stones, 436, 624. Stones, ballast, 29. ..."
3. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1807)
"crack,6 not thus high: and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson stockfish,
... stockfish ..."
4. Notes on the Fish Supply of Norway by Fredrik Meltzer Wallem (1883)
"The Italians prefer meagre fish to plump, and always serve the stockfish with
the skin ; they also prefer oil, or oil and butter mixed, to butter. ..."
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