ˈhalf-fishn.
A half-grown salmon: see quot. 1677.
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1677 Johnson in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 127 A salmon cock, which some call a half-fish, usually about twenty or twenty-two inches, and a whole fish, above that length.
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