† staple fishn.
Obsolete.
Fish not thoroughly cured; = green fish n. 1.
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1477 Pat. Roll 16 Edw. IV ii. 17 d Nauis..le Jacob de Hamburghe..cum viginti et sex Milibus Stokfisshe duobus Milibus Staplefisshe et nouem doliis de Trane ad valenciam Sexcentarum librarum in partibus Islandie onusta.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. cvj Staple fysshe.
1563 in W. Rye Depositions Mayor & Aldermen Norwich 1549–67 (1905) 72 A firkin of eels, and 600 staplefish, shipped at Amsterdam.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 23 As for Staple or Salt-Fish, there are those..who will maintain, that it will..set up the Fishery as high as ever it was, if every one in England able to dispend a Hundred Pounds per annum, were enjoyned to lay out Twenty Shillings a Year, in staple-fish.
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 90 Green-fish (alias Staple Fish as they call it,) cured with a good Salt, proves excellent.
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