Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fish, such as a cod or haddock, cured by being split and air-dried without salt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Certain gadoid fish which are cured by splitting and drying hard without salt, as cod, ling, hake, haddock, torsk, or cusk.
- noun In fish-culture, fish adapted or used for stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
- noun (Zoöl.) Young fresh cod.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cod (or similar fish) having been cut open andcured in the open air without salt. - noun South Africa The South African hake.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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. "
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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Most are engaged in producing traditional whitefish products, for example dried cod, salted fish, and stockfish.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas) 2009
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We were all thoroughly sick of stockfish, sprats in mustard, and herrings in pickle.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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We had bales of stockfish, everyone did, and everyone loathed it.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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We were all thoroughly sick of stockfish, sprats in mustard, and herrings in pickle.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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We were all thoroughly sick of stockfish, sprats in mustard, and herrings in pickle.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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We had bales of stockfish, everyone did, and everyone loathed it.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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We had bales of stockfish, everyone did, and everyone loathed it.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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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.
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Now we have another reason to boycott their stockfish...
Norway: This is war 2007
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