rockling

American  

[rok-ling] / ˈrɒk lɪŋ /

noun

plural

rocklings,

plural

rockling

1. any of several small cods of the genera Enchalyopus and Gaidropsarus, found in the North Atlantic.

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rockling British  

/ ˈrɒklɪŋ /

noun

1. any small gadoid fish of the genera Gaidropsarus, Ciliata , etc (formerly all included in Motella ), which have an elongated body with barbels around the mouth and occur mainly in the North Atlantic Ocean

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Etymology

Origin of rockling

First recorded in 1595–1605; rock ¹ + -ling ¹

Example Sentences

And the prawns and the crayfish and the rockling, they swam in and out above their heads: but Don Guzman he never heeded, but sat still, and drank his wine.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles

Whis′tle-fish, a rockling; Whis′tler, one who, or that which, whistles: a kind of marmot: a broken-winded horse; Whis′tling.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various