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stenlock Sc. and Anglo-Irish.|ˈstɛnlɒk|
Also stainloch.
[Of doubtful origin; found in recent Gaelic as steinloch.
A Scandinavian fish-name of similar sound is Sw. stenlake stickleback, app. f. sten stone + lake eelpout (also in MSw. and mod.Norw.); cf. Norw. lakesild (sild herring) a kind of whitefish. But connexion seems unlikely.]
The Coal-fish or Sillock, Merlangus carbonarius.
179.Agric. Surv. Hebrides 631 (Jam.) [The inhabitants of Islay] catch a number of stenlock..off the point of the Rinns of Islay. 1863[W. F. Campbell] Life in Normandy I. 283 It was some time before I knew that stainloch, greyfish..and poddly, were all one fish at different ages. 1864Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 1190/2 Stenlock are caught in great abundance with the cod-nets.
attrib.1893N. Munro Gilian the Dreamer (1893) 167 A gross of stenlock hooks to grapple ye. |