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Definition of Stockfishes
1. stockfish [n] - See also: stockfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stockfishes
Literary usage of Stockfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"£^33 3s- 4^- In Shetland Ling, every ling to be rated at two stockfishes ; for
26 Saturdays, thirteen days in Lent, and one day in Rogation week, ..."
2. Social England Illustrated: A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts by Andrew Lang (1903)
"|N STOCK FISH for 52 Wednesdays, two meals, and half service; for 52 Fridays,
one meal, and whole service : 300 stockfishes a day. In all the whole, ..."
3. A Survey of London by John Stow (1908)
"For Grocerie ware, iSo.li. 17.s. For sixe Barrels of sturgeon, ig.li. For 6800.
stockfishes, so called, for dried fishes of all sorts, as Lings, ..."
4. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"Thomas Becon, the reformer, had complained that schoolmasters beat their pupils "
like stockfishes." Mulcaster, the successor of Ascham, had no hesitation ..."
5. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1900)
"... had complained that schoolmasters beat their pupils " like stockfishes."
Mulcaster, the successor of Ascham, had no hesitation about flogging; ..."
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