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stockphyshe

stockphyshe is the obsolete form 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 stockphyshe

What is stockphyshe the obsolete form of?
Stockphyshe is the obsolete form of stockfish.

Words near stockphyshe in the dictionary

  1. stockowners
  2. stockowning
  3. stockpeople
  4. stockperson
  5. stockpersons
  6. stockphyshe
  7. stockpicker
  8. stockpickers
  9. stockpile
  10. stockpiled
  11. stockpiler

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