stockfish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt

WordNet

Stock"fish` noun
Etymology
Cf. D. stokvisch.
Definitions
  1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
  2. (Zoöl.) Young fresh cod.

Webster 1913