Another entry displays to us Dame Joan Lancaster bargaining for the smelts and the stockfishat Lynn.
In their storehouse the nuns always kept a supply of the dried cod known as stockfish for their guest-house and for the frater during the winter.
But there is one thing I could wish for--to see the author of The Political Stockfish hanged by my side with sixteen copies of The Council of State and Political Dessert hung round his neck.
I once read in the preface of a book called The Political Stockfish that when one is overwhelmed with anger he must count twenty, and his anger will pass.
Next day the news brought the other tribes out, with the Stockfish under a general called Slimer on the right, the Tunnyheads on the left, and the Crabhands in the centre; the Tritonomendetes stayed at home, preferring neutrality.
And if thou seest not this, and if the qualities of the parents do descend to their children, then must I believe thy father was a stockfish and thy mother a plaice.
Now this my discourse they understood not, but looked one upon another like live stockfish till they saw me very soberly take the first draught out of my hat.
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.
The coat in question is: "Gules, a stockfish argent, crowned with an open crown or.
The stockfish is a dried and cured cod, split open and with the head removed.
Master Shallow compromised the matter for twenty marks on the present occasion,--and, by occasional subsequent fees, was enabled to bind Stockfish over to permanent silence.
The old man has more chink than ever, chandling and stockfish bring him in a pretty penny; but now he's gone in for whale fishing in the Greenland sea, and he has the devil's own luck.
The command of a ship would be more to my taste truly, though its cargo might be hides or stockfish or whales' blubber.
The people of this country carry on a considerable trade with these dried stockfishinto Germany.
The stockfish are dried without being salted, in the sun and air; and, as they have little fat or moisture, they grow as dry as wood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stockfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
