Stockfish Definition
stŏkfĭsh
stockfishes
noun
Any fish cured by being split and hung in the open air to dry without salt, as cod, haddock, etc.
Webster's New World
(South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake, Merluccius capensis.
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Other Word Forms of Stockfish
Noun
Singular:
stockfish
Plural:
stockfishesOrigin of Stockfish
Middle English stokfish translation of Middle Dutch stocvisch stoc tree limb (perhaps from its being dried on wooden racks) vische fish
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle Low German / Middle Dutch stokvisch (“stick fish"), since the fish were dried in the wind on wooden frames, as still happens today in Lofoten, Norway.
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From Afrikaans, from Dutch stokvis.
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