stockfish
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stockfish/ˈstɒkfɪʃ/
▶noun (pl. same or stockfishes)
- 1 a commercially valuable hake of coastal waters of southern Africa. [Merluccius capensis.]
- 2 cod or a similar fish split and dried in the open air without salt.
– origin ME: from Mid. Low Ger., MDu. stokvisch, of unknown origin.
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