n. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
n. The South African hake.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
n. Young fresh cod.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Certain gadoid fish which are cured by splitting and drying hard without salt, as cod, ling, hake, haddock, torsk, or cusk.
n. In fish-culture, fish adapted or used for stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc.
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n. fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
Word Usage
"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. ""