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stockfish
[ stok-fish ]
noun
, plural (especially collectively) stock·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) stock·fish·es.
- fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.
stockfish
/ ˈstɒkˌfɪʃ /
noun
- fish, such as cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stockfish1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stockfish1
C13: of uncertain origin. Perhaps from stock (in the sense: stem, tree trunk) because it was dried on wooden racks. Compare Middle Dutch stocvisch
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Example Sentences
Too good for such a dried stockfish of the Baltic, with not so much soul as a speckled flounder on his own mud-flats!
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But he had already chucked his share of stockfish and hardtack, to the laughter of Svearek's men, when the gale started.
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If one wants to be thirsty, the tail of a stockfish is as good for it as the head of a logician.
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The coat in question is: "Gules, a stockfish argent, crowned with an open crown or."
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It was an ordinary stockfish, about three-quarters of a yard long, that some joker had hung on the line during the night.
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