DCHP-1 Online
West India Obs. 
1 . the lowest grade of cod for export. Also West India and West Indies.
See also: West India fish
2 Lumbering a size of stave measuring 3 1/2' long by 4" broad and 4" thick.
- 1821 (1957) I . . . have seized the same--amounting to about Six thousand Pipe Staves--five thousand feet Square Oak timber, and four thousand West India staves. . . .
- 1945 Though there were other sizes, for example the heavy "pipe stave," the two which were common in the Quebec export trade were the "standard" and the "West India."