rock codfishn.
/ˌrɒk ˈkɒdfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌrɑ(k) ˈkɑdˌfɪʃ/ Now rare.
= rock cod n. 1, 2.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of
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sea-perch1601
jewfish1679
hind1735
mero1763
rock cod1790
rock codfish1796
Norway or Norwegian haddock1847
serranid1879
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus morhua (common cod) > defined by habitat
rock cod1634
red coda1705
rock codfish1796
school cod1814
shoal-cod1836
shelf cod1935
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. Index sig. 3G2 Rock-cod fish.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. ii. 26 Sweyn Erickson had gone too far in..charging the rock codfish at a penny instead of a halfpenny a-piece.
1838 S. Parker Jrnl. Tour beyond Rocky Mts. (1846) 198 The rock codfish were not known to inhabit the waters about the mouth of the Columbia, until the present year.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xi. 138 I used it to salt a number of rock cod-fish.
1862 C. Giles Let. in C. G. Carter Life Chauncey Giles (1920) 201 When we were ten or twelve miles from Portland we saw a man in a little boat fishing for rock codfish.
1908 Rep. Cambr. Anthropol. Exped. Torres Straits VI. 100 Koiet, rock codfish.
2008 K. T. Hill Victoria & Vancouver Island (ed. 6) v. 198 Among their ‘undersea adventures without getting wet’ are the rock cod fish battered..with dill and flour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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