单词 | waterhorse fish |
释义 | > as lemmaswaterhorse fish 2. Newfoundland. A pile or stack of split and salted whole cod, rinsed and arranged in layers to drain before drying. Also occasionally as mass noun. Sometimes attributive, esp. as waterhorse fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cod cod1357 codfisha1399 cod's head1545 New-land fish1580 bank fish1584 Newfoundland fish1589 water horse1777 coddiea1870 rounder1907 1663 J. Yonge Jrnl. (1963) (modernized text) iii. 57 The fish being salted, lies 3 or 4 days, sometimes (if bad weather) 8 or 10 days, and is then washed by the boys in salt or fresh water and laid in a pile skin upward on a platt of beach stones, which they call a horse.] 1777 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 5 Aug. (1792) II. 242 Fourteen quintals of fish were washed, the water-horse was carried out, and the green fish were spread. 1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador II. Gloss. p. x Water-horse, newly washed codfish, which are laid upon each other to drain before they are spread to dry. 1818 E. Chappell Voy. Newfoundland & Labrador v. 128 The fish are then taken to a convenient spot, and piled up to drain; and the heap, thus formed, is styled ‘a water-horse’. 1866 W. Wilson Newfoundland & its Missionaries vi. 211 The quantity of fish in the water-horse is indefinite. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 300 Water horse, salt fish just washed from a vat. 1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 49 The Blanchard women were spreading out green, waterhorse fish. 1996 M. E. Ferguson Making Fish: Salt-cod Processing on East Coast Newfoundland (M.A. thesis, Memorial Univ. Newfoundland) 166 A key requirement for drying waterhorse was a cool and windy spot. < as lemmas |
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