The AI-powered English dictionary
countable and uncountable, plural stockfishes or stockfish
A cod (or similar fish) having been cut open and cured in the open air without salt. quotations examples
So the Prior of Saint Botolph’s hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars’ breakfast.
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed
1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations
plural stockfishes or stockfish
(South Africa) The shallow-water Cape hake (Merluccius capensis) examples