sea-porkn.
1. ‘The flesh of young whales in the western isles of Scotland’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
2. U.S. regional. (See quot. 1885.)
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1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 58 Amarœcium, a genus [of compound ascidians] common on our coasts, forms large colonies... The general color is much like that of boiled salt pork,..and the fishermen..call them sea-pork.
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