stockfish
IPA: stˈɑkfɪʃ
noun
- A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
- (South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
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Examples of "stockfish" in Sentences
- Now we have another reason to boycott their stockfish...
- We had bales of stockfish, everyone did, and everyone loathed it.
- We were all thoroughly sick of stockfish, sprats in mustard, and herrings in pickle.
- Most are engaged in producing traditional whitefish products, for example dried cod, salted fish, and stockfish.
- A new study shows that cod were exploited in the Middle Ages from many, often distant, fishing grounds, with an international trade in dried stockfish.
- In language hardly official, the Marquise threatens to make stockfish, that is her phrase, of whosoever has had a hand in either the abduction or the concealment of the missing lady. "
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