† red-ware fishickn. [ < red waren.1 + Scots fishick brown whistle-fish or rockling (18th cent.: see Sc. National Dict. at fishick n.)] Obsoleterare the fivebeard rockling, Ciliata mustela.
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1805 G. BarryHist. Orkneyiii. i. 292 The Whistle Fish (gadus mustela..) or, as it is here named, the red-ware fishick, is a species very often found under the stones among the sea-weed.