[stok-fish] 
) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es. | fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt. |
| stock·fish (stŏk'fĭsh') n. pl. stockfish or stock·fish·es A fish, such as a cod or haddock, cured by being split and air-dried without salt. [Middle English stokfish, translation of Middle Dutch stocvisch : stoc, tree limb (perhaps from its being dried on wooden racks) + vische, fish.] |