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cock-paddle Sc.
Also -paidle, -peddle.
[see quot. 1859; by some, cock appears to be taken in sense of ‘male’.]
A name of the Common Lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus.
a1672Willughby De Hist. Pisc. iv. (1686) 208 The Lump or Sea-Owl, Scotis Cock-Paddle. 1684Sibbald Scotia 24 (Jam.) Lumpus Anglorum, nostratibus Cock-Paddle. 1816Scott Antiq. xi, ‘How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-paddle?’ a1855G. Johnston Fishes of Berwicksh. (in Yarrell), The Cock and Hen Paidle spawn toward the end of March and in April. At that season the Hen..deposits her spawn among the rocks and sea-weed. 1859Richardson in Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 344 The epithet of Cock-paidle seems to have originated in the appearance of the elevated dorsal ridge, which is enveloped, like the rest of the fish, in a thick, tuberculated skin, with some resemblance to the comb of a domestic cock. |