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ˈrock-fish
[rock n.1]
1. A fish frequenting rocks or rocky bottoms, spec. as the name of many unrelated fishes, such as the black goby or sea-gudgeon, the striped bass, the wrasse, etc. Also = rock salmon (c) s.v. rock n.1 9 d.
Also with defining terms, as bearded, black, grass, green, etc., applied to a number of American fishes, chiefly of the genera Sebastichthys and Sebastomus.
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 279/1 Piota,..a kind of rock fish. 1611Cotgr., Canadelle, the smallest of rock-fishes, beautified with spots of sundry colours. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xiv. (1614) 912 Mullets, Breames, Lobstars, and angel-like Hog-fish, Rock-fish, &c. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 100 Also Rock-fishes, which are red intermixt with several other colours. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 91 The Rock-fish is called by Sea-men a Grooper. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 115 Pollock, Cavallos, Rock-Fish, Silver-Fish. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling 135 The Sea-Gudgeon or Rock-Fish..is a slender roundish Fish, about six Inches long. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. 9 These waters are stored with incredible quantities of fish, such as sheeps-heads, rock-fish, drums, white pearch. 1835Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 223/1 The Striped Basse, or Rock-fish, as it is called, is very common along the coast of New York. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. 211 The fishes most commonly brought into market in Guernsey are the rock-fish (wrasse or vraic-fish,..) and the conger. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 21 Closely allied to the Pike-Perches is the log-perch, P. caprodes, also known as the ‘Rock-fish’, and ‘Hog-fish’. 1969[see rock-salmon s.v. rock n.1 9 d].
2. ‘A codfish split, washed, and dried on the rocks’ (Cent. Dict. 1890).
3. = klipfish 1.
1731,1806[see klipfish 1]. |