ˈharbin
A local name of the coal-fish (Merlangus carbonarius), at a certain age.
| 1806 Neill Tour Orkney, etc. 209 (Jam.) The appearance of the coal-fish varies much with its age: hence a new series of provincial names. In Orkney it is 1. a sillock; 2. a cooth; 3. a harbin; 4. a cudden; and 5. a sethe. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes (1841) II. 251. 1861 Couch Brit. Fishes III. 84. |