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stockfishes

stockfishes is the plural of stockfish.

Meaning of stockfish

Noun (1)

stockfish (countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish)

  1. Cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt.
    • 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.1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Noun (2)

stockfish (plural stockfishes or stockfish)

  1. (South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis)
    Synonyms:
    South African hake

Questions about stockfishes

What is stockfishes the plural of?
Stockfishes is the plural of stockfish.

Words near stockfishes in the dictionary

  1. stocketh
  2. Stockett
  3. Stocketts
  4. stockfeed
  5. stockfish
  6. stockfishes
  7. stockfishmonger
  8. stockfishmongers
  9. Stockford
  10. stockgirl
  11. stockgirls

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