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单词 waterhorse fish
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waterhorse 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.
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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.
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