whitings
- plural of whiting.
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Photographs of shrimp boats and fishermen with their splendid catches of blues and whitings lined the walls from top to bottom.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
An old name for a fisherman on the Thames below London Bridge, who took whitings, smelts, &c., commonly at ebbing-water.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Thus do antiquaries, like whitings, prey upon each other, illustrating their own proverb, Mercantia non vuol ni amici ni parenti.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
They were at the bottom of the stairs, when La Fontaine opened the door and shouted out: "He has promised us some whitings, In return for all our writings."
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
Salmon trout, as it is usually called, haddocks, or large whitings are carved in the same way.
From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George
