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fish † 

• 1 n. especially in Newfoundland, cod.

  • 1861  As the reader may suppose, fish is, in Labrador, a standing--or, rather, the standard--dish.
  • 1909  A salmon is a salmon, and a trout is a trout, but cod, and cod only, is spoken of as fish. "Will you have salmon or fish?" you are asked at the dinner table, and you soon get into the same way of talking.
  • 1957  "Me fadder . . . worked all of his life and not a penny to show fer it. And his fadder before him. And his fadder, too. 'Tis always dat way wid fish."

• 2 n. North dried and, sometimes, smoked fish, as whitefish, long used for food for both men and dogs by the Indians and Eskimos.

  See also: dried fish  

  • 1897  Well, first of all, as word has come that the wolves have been visiting our fish-cache, Martin Papanekis and I have arranged to drive over there with the dogs to see the extent of the damage.
  • 1956  In early October, Mooneas asked me what I was going to do about fish. He meant winter fish, dog-feed. I knew we would require some "Hung fish"--semi-dried fish--for winter travel. . . .