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green-fish|ˈgriːnfɪʃ|
[See green a. 9 b.]
†1. Fresh, unsalted fish; spec. applied to cod before it has been salted or cured. (Cf. haberdine.) Obs.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 851 Grene sawce is good with grene fisch. 1540Old City Acc. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. XLIII, It. for a grene ffysshe a goyle of sawmond and for a haberdyne. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Moruë, or Mouluë, poisson, a fishe called Codde, or greene fishe. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca iv. i, [It] shews thee like a long Lent, thy brave body turn'd to a tail of green-fish without butter. 1623Whitbourne Newfoundland 79 Two hundred thousand dry fish, ten thousand of large greene fish. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 119/2 If..euery house in this Kingdome did spend but the quantity of two Haberdine or Greenfish in a week. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 155 Whilst it [Codling] is new, it is called green⁓fish; when it is salted it is called Ling. 1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 90 Green-Fish (alias Staple Fish as they call it) cured with a good Salt, proves excellent. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lx. (1737) 247 Green-fish, Sea-Batts, Cod-Sounds. 1736Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict., A green fish, asellus. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Green-fish, cod, hake, haddock, herrings, &c. unsalted.
2. a. local. The coal-fish. b. U.S. (See quot. 1884–5).
1880–4F. Day Fishes Gt. Brit. & Irel. I. 297 Gadus pollachius..Names.— Pollack: whiting-pollack..Sometimes termed greenling or green-fish. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 183 The blue-fish (Pomatomus saltatrix)..in parts of Virginia and North Carolina it is known as green-fish. |