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stockfishes

Variant of stockfish

noun pl. stockfish, stockfishes

any fish cured by being split and hung in the open air to dry without salt, as cod, haddock, etc.

Origin: ME stokfysshe < MDu stokvisch < stok, stick (see stock) + visch, fish

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