stockfish

[ stok-fish ]

/ ˈstɒkˌfɪʃ /

fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.

Origin of stockfish

1250–1300; Middle English stocfish < Middle Dutch stocvisch. See stock, fish

Flesh and blood he is like other men, but surely nature meant him stockfish.

Character Writings of the 17th Century |Various
That is full of old armour, and dried herrings, and stockfish.

Grisly Grisell |Charlotte M. Yonge
The stockfish is a dried and cured cod, split open and with the head removed.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry |Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
M'Intyre had to thaw his nose three times, and my chin and ears had twice got as hard as bits o' stockfish.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland |Various

Salt fish (stockfish) is one of the principal articles of diet of the peasantry.

Jamaican Song and Story |Walter Jekyll

stockfish

/ (ˈstɒkˌfɪʃ) /

fish, such as cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air

C13: of uncertain origin. Perhaps from stock (in the sense: stem, tree trunk) because it was dried on wooden racks. Compare Middle Dutch stocvisch