Stockfish

Definitions

1. A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
   countable, uncountable
2. The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
   South-Africa

Equivalents

Examples

“So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.”

“We saw⟳ the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open⟳ air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed”

CEFR level