† staple fish Obs.
[? staple n.2; but the precise reference is not clear.]
Fish not thoroughly cured; = green-fish 1.
| 1477 Pat. Roll 16 Edw. IV, ii. 17 d, Nauis..le Jacob de Hamburghe..cum viginti et sex Milibus Stokfisshe duobus Milibus Staplefisshe et nouem doliis de Trane ad valenciam Sexcentarum librarum in partibus Islandie onusta. 1545 Rates Custom Ho. c vj, Staple fysshe. 1563 Norwich Deposit. (1905) 72 A firkin of eels, and 600 staplefish, shipped at Amsterdam. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Gen. viii. 23 As for Staple or Salt-Fish, there are those..who will maintain, that it will..set up the Fishery as high as ever it was, if every one in England able to dispend a Hundred Pounds per annum, were enjoyned to lay out Twenty Shillings a Year, in staple-fish. c 1682 J. Collins Making Salt Eng. 90 Green-fish (alias Staple Fish as they call it,) cured with a good Salt, proves excellent. |