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rock cod
[rock n.1]
1. A cod found on rocky sea-bottoms or ledges. Chiefly Sc. and north.
The first quot. may belong to sense 2.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 45 Besides here is a great deale of Rock-cod and Macrill. a1705–1758 [see red a. 17 c]. 1821Scott Pirate ii, In an overcharge of about one hundred per cent on a bargain of rock-cod. 1838Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 173 The young are called Codlings; and when the fish is of a red colour, which it assumes after lying some time among weedy rocks, it is then called Rock Cod, or Codling. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 533 We..caught, ere our return, a basket of rock-cod or coal-fish for supper.
2. Applied to various fishes of other genera, as the Californian yellow-tailed rock-fish, the red garrupa, the rock-trout of Puget Sound, several South African serranoid fishes, the New Zealand blue cod, etc.
1796Stedman Surinam II. 46 The other is that fine large fish called by the English rock-cod. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 76/1 Of edible sea fish, the best kinds near Canton are a sort of rock-cod. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 16 The most valuable fish in the waters around the coast is the rock-cod. 1859All Year Round No. 4. 82 The deep sea fish—the ‘schnapper’, the ‘king fish’, the ‘grounder’, and the rock cod—were beyond their reach. 1880R. Comm. Fish. N.S.W. 10 The genus Serranus comprises most of the fishes known as ‘Rock Cod’... One only is sufficiently useful as an article of food to merit notice, and that is the ‘Black Rock-Cod’ (Serranus damelii, Günther).
So rock codfish.
1821Scott Pirate ii, Erickson had gone too far in..charging the rock codfish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a-pound. 1845Coulter Adv. Pacific xi, A number of rock cod-fish. |