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crapefish

crapefish noun: salted codfish hardened by pressure.

Noun

crapefish (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
    • 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 pressed1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations

Questions about crapefish

What does crapefish mean?
Crapefish means salted codfish hardened by pressure.
What part of speech is crapefish?
Crapefish is a noun.

Words near crapefish in the dictionary

  1. crape
  2. crape jasmine
  3. crape myrtle
  4. crape myrtles
  5. craped
  6. crapefish
  7. crapehanger
  8. crapehangers
  9. crapehanging
  10. crapelike
  11. crapes

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