‖ ˈsalpa1 Obs.
[L. salpa, ad. Gr. σάλπη. Cf. F. saupe.]
Some kind of salt-water fish used by the ancients as stockfish.
| c 1520 Andrew Noble Lyfe lxxix. in Babees Bk., Salpa is a fowle fisshe and lytell set by. 1555 Eden Decades 269 Dryed fysshe as soles, maydens, playces, salpas, stocke⁓fysshes, and such other. 1624 Middleton Game at Chess v. iii, The Salpa from Ebusus [in ed. 1 and MSS. Eleusis]; or the Pelamis (which some call Sommer Whiting). 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Salpa, the Goldlin; a sort of Fish. |