coothn.
/kuːθ/ The local name in Shetland and Orkney of the Coal-fish, before it is full-grown. (Jamieson.)
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1793 Statist. Acc. Orkney VII. 453 (Jam.) But the fish most generally caught..is a grey fish here called cuths, of the size of small haddocks.
1795 Statist. Acc. Orkney XVI. 261 (Jam.) These boats sometimes go to sea for the purpose of fishing cod, cooths, and tibrics, which are the small or young cooths.
1841 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (ed. 2) II. 251.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xv. 264 [Shetland] The..Gadus Carbonarius..known by the varying term of silloch, cuth, and seath, according to age and size.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 295 Names. Cornwall: also locally as..cooth.
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