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stockfishmonger

stockfishmonger noun: a seller of stockfish.

Noun

stockfishmonger (plural stockfishmongers)

  1. A seller of stockfish.
    • By a charter of 24 King Henry VII., dated 20th September 1508, the stockfishmongers of the City of London were incorporated by the name of “The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mistery of Stockfishmongers of the City of London,” with perpetual succession and a common seal.[…]The stockfishmongers were...1884, City of London Livery Companies’ Commission. Report and Appendix., volume II, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, pages 206 and 210
    • East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.1933, Eileen Power, M[ichael] M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN

Examples of stockfishmonger in a sentence

  • By such incorporation of the two companies the property and the rights and privileges of the stockfishmongers passed to the present corporation of the “Fishmongers of the City of London.”1884, City of London Livery Companies’ Commission. Report and Appendix., volume II, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, pages 206 and 210:
  • St Michael, Crooked Lane provides an example of the small London parish dominated by one trade, in this case the stockfishmongers.2006, The Parish in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2002 Harlaxton Symposium:
  • In 1392, two citizens of Lynn received a licence to send their ships to Norway to buy stockfish, and two London stockfishmongers stood their sureties.2014, The German Hansa and Bergen 1100-1600, →ISBN, page 73:

Forms of stockfishmonger

pluralstockfishmongers

Origin of stockfishmonger

From stockfish + monger.

Questions about stockfishmonger

What does stockfishmonger mean?
Stockfishmonger means a seller of stockfish.
How do you use stockfishmonger in a sentence?
By such incorporation of the two companies the property and the rights and privileges of the stockfishmongers passed to the present corporation of the “Fishmongers of the City of London.”
What part of speech is stockfishmonger?
Stockfishmonger is a noun.
What is the plural of stockfishmonger?
The plural of stockfishmonger is stockfishmongers.

Words near stockfishmonger in the dictionary

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

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