whitings

I bought some speldings, fish (generally whitings) salted and dried in a particular manner, being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun, and eaten by the Scots by way of a relish.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

This was so fresh, so good in kind, and so very cheap, that we supplied ourselves in great numbers, among which were very large soles at fourpence a pair, and whitings of almost a preposterous size at ninepence a score.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

Nevertheless, we have excellent soles, skaite, flounders and whitings, and sometimes mackarel.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

This she had not thought worthy of communication, any more than that there lived a fisherman at next door, who was then provided with plenty of soles, and whitings, and lobsters, far superior to those which adorn a city feast.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

Moreover smelts, soales, dabs, whitings, sturbuts, gurnets, and all such other, as are well knowne not to be ill, or unwholesome to feed on.

Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

For ourselves, when it comes to bait-fishing -- except in running water, when worm-fishing is an art -- we prefer catching whitings and haddocks in some of our beautiful salt-water lochs, to all the perch, roach, chub, and such-like, that ever swam.

Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior

We ourselves hear that it is in the neighbourhood of the fried whitings.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

I went to captain whitings and nothing remarkable hapned. the 12.

The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson

She caught two big dabs, four whitings, a small plaice, and a fine fat sole.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

They rubbed their eyes with onions, gaped like whitings, blew violently into their handkerchiefs, and, bringing their voices out of the depth of their stomachs, groaned forth: "O Penguins, cease these fratricidal struggles; cease to rend your mother's bosom!"

Penguin Island 1909