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‖ ˈsalpa1 Obs.
[L. salpa, ad. Gr. σάλπη. Cf. F. saupe.]
Some kind of salt-water fish used by the ancients as stockfish.
c1520Andrew Noble Lyfe lxxix. in Babees Bk., Salpa is a fowle fisshe and lytell set by. 1555Eden Decades 269 Dryed fysshe as soles, maydens, playces, salpas, stocke⁓fysshes, and such other. 1624Middleton Game at Chess v. iii, The Salpa from Ebusus [in ed. 1 and MSS. Eleusis]; or the Pelamis (which some call Sommer Whiting). 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Salpa, the Goldlin; a sort of Fish. |