A name for cod and other gadoid fish cured by splitting open and drying hard in the air without salt.

A split and dried fish.

A stockfish; spec. one of small size.

= weak, adj. in various senses. woke fish, dried cod, stockfish.

Some kind of saltwater fish used by the ancients as stockfish.

A small split fish, preserved by being dried in the sun.

A kind of stockfish.

Cod-fish. spec. dried or salted cod-fish. Also in Portuguese form bacalhau.

Fish, usually hake, salted and dried for food; a fish preserved in this way. Now historical.

From its hardness: Dried whiting or other fish. (Cf. early modern Dutch bokshoren.)

Fish, usually hake, salted and dried for food; a fish preserved in this way; = Poor John, n. 1a.

Any of various fishes. A hake; the flesh of the hake, used as food. Apparently only in dried Jack, dry Jack. Cf. poorjack, n. Obsolete.

a split and dried fish, a speldring.

= spelding, n.

A dried or cured herring of a type caught at Digby. In full Digby chickenor chick.

A codfish split open, boned, salted, and dried.

Bombay duck = bummalo, n.

(a) a fish armed with scales; (b) see quot. 1857; (c) the scabbard-fish (Cent. Dict.).

(See quots. and scrae, n.2)

= klipfish, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

a dried quarter of this fish.