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klipfish|ˈklɪpfɪʃ|
Also clipfish, klepvis, klippfish, -fisch, klipvissie.
[ad. Du. klipvisch (f. klip rock) and Da. klipfisk (f. klippe rock).]
1. S. Afr. A viviparous, brightly-coloured, marine fish of the family Clinidæ, living in shallow water or rock pools.
[1731G. Medley tr. Kolb's Present State Cape Good-Hope I. xx. 256 The Hottentots frequently take Abundance of a Sort of Fish, call'd Rock-fish. These are Fish without Scales.] 1790E. Helme tr. Le Vaillant's Trav. Afr. I. ii. 22 The klepvis..is without scales, and taken among the rocks on the sea shore. 1806J. Barrow Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) II. i. 38 The Klip or rock-fish, the Blennius viviparus, makes no bad fry. 1838J. E. Alexander Expedition Interior Afr. I. iv. 88 Abundance of excellent fish are to be procured here; such as the delicious Roman fish, Hottentot, ‘Jacob Fever’, mullet, stump nose, and clip fish. 1876,1893[see kingklip]. 1902Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. XI. 224 Several names, or parts of names, are derived from the localities in which the fish are found. Thus we have..Klip Visch, Steen Klip Visch (a peculiar redundancy). 1953U. Krige Dream & Desert i. 14 They had..gazed into rockpools full of starfish, slowly waving sea plants and green-and-gold klipvissies drifting lazily from crevice to crevice. 1969Nature 8 Nov. 540/1 The shores of South Africa are enlivened by a group of typically littoral viviparous fishes known locally as klipfishes (but as clinids to the academic). 1973Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 18 Apr. 102 The klipfish is fried in butter and carefully filleted on the plate with knife and fork.
2. A codfish split open, boned, salted, and dried.
1835Penny Cycl. IV. 273/2 The klip-fish is cut along the back, and the back-bone taken out, after which it is salted down in the bottom of the vessel. 1881S. Walpole in 20th Ann. Rep. Salmon Fisheries 1880 23 in Parl. Papers (C 2901) XXIII. 299 Cod are either cured as stock fisch or as klipp fisch... The klipp fish are split and boned before they are salted. 1925J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 136 The bulk of the cod caught in the northern fisheries is split open, washed, and salted in pickle and then dried on rocks (Klippen). This is the so-called Klipp-fish. 1961H. Angerman et al. in Borgstrom & Heighway Atlantic Ocean Fisheries 80/2 The klipfish is subjected to more complicated treatment than the stockfish. |