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sillock Sc.|ˈsɪlək|
Forms: 7 sellak, 8 -ok, 9 -ock; 8 silak, 9 sillack, -ag; 8–9 sillik, -uck (9 -uk), 8– sillock.
[Orkney and Shetland dial.]
A young coal-fish (saithe), at a certain stage of its first year.
1654Blaeu Atlas Scotia 138 Piscium variorum, præcipue silurorum minimorum majorum et maximorum (vulgo Sellaks, Kuythes, Colmouses) captura felix. 1793Statist. Acc. Scotl., Orkney & Zetland VII. 589 Sillocks set in, in great quantities, to the bays or voes in winter. 1822Hibbert Desc. Shetl. Isl. 434 Throwing his line among the throng of sillocks with which the inlet was filled. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schoolm. xxv. (1857) 558 A flock of sea-gulls that had been sporting in the sunshine over a shoal of sillocks. 1881Day Fishes Gt. Brit. I. 295 At this period they are from six to ten inches in length, and much esteemed as sillucks.
attrib.1822Hibbert Desc. Shetl. Isl. 122 It is to the sinewless arm of youth..that the light task is resigned of wielding the sillock-rod. 1888Saxby Lads of Lunda 34 A long, tapering, sturdy wand known as a ‘sillack rod’. |