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dry fish

• 1 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  

• 2 Maritimes cod that have been full weather-cured on flakes.

  See also: dry fishery  green fish  

  • 1905  A quintal is, roughly, a hundred pounds. One hundred quintals of green fish are equal, roughly, to thirty of dry, which at $3, would amount to $90.