stockfish

[ stok-fish ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) stock·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) stock·fish·es.

1. fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.

stockfish

/ ˈstɒkˌfɪʃ /

noun

1. fish, such as cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air

Word History and Origins

Origin of stockfish¹

1250–1300; Middle English stocfish < Middle Dutch stocvisch. See stock, fish

Word History and Origins

Origin of stockfish¹

C13: of uncertain origin. Perhaps from stock (in the sense: stem, tree trunk) because it was dried on wooden racks. Compare Middle Dutch stocvisch

Example Sentences

Below is a snapshot of the match after each of the 572 moves in those 11 games, calculated by the computer chess engine Stockfish.

From FiveThirtyEight

Here’s how all the games have gone thus far, according to the superhuman chess engine Stockfish.

From FiveThirtyEight

Too good for such a dried stockfish of the Baltic, with not so much soul as a speckled flounder on his own mud-flats!

From Project Gutenberg

But he had already chucked his share of stockfish and hardtack, to the laughter of Svearek's men, when the gale started.

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If one wants to be thirsty, the tail of a stockfish is as good for it as the head of a logician.

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The coat in question is: "Gules, a stockfish argent, crowned with an open crown or."

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It was an ordinary stockfish, about three-quarters of a yard long, that some joker had hung on the line during the night.

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