| 单词 | digby chicken or chick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDigby chicken or chick A dried or cured herring of a type caught at Digby. In full Digby chicken or chick. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > dried fish stockfish1290 spalderlingc1340 titling1386 woke fish1386 salpa?1527 spelding1537 lobfish1538 bacalao1555 Poor John1589 buck-horn1602 poorjack1623 Jacka1625 spalding1776 speldring1802 Digby1829 klipfish1835 Bombay duck1850 scale-fish1856 skrae-fish1867 rockfish1876 katsuobushi1891 1829 G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 40 A small species of herring... They are extremely delicate, and are salted in great quantities every year. They have gained the nick-name of Digby chickens. 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 557/2 A variety of small herrings or pilchards, which are smoked and dried for export; they have a high flavour, and are known in trade as Digbies. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 72 Samples of Yarmouth Golden Digby Chicks in tins hermetically sealed. 1887 Daily News 2 May 2/8 Digby chicks, 6d. per bundle. 1958 Encycl. Canadiana III. 267/1 Digby is noted..for fish, including cured herrings known as ‘Digby chickens’. < as lemmas |
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