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stock·fish  (stkfsh)

n. pl. stockfish or stock·fish·es

A fish, such as a cod or haddock, cured by being split and air-dried without salt.

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[Middle English stokfish, translation of Middle Dutch stocvisch : stoc, tree limb (perhaps from its being dried on wooden racks) + vische, fish.]

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stockfish - fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt fish - the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish"