sleeve-fish
[Cf. sleeve n. 5.]
A fish of the family Loligo; esp. the common calamary or squid, Loligo vulgaris.
| 1611 Cotgr., Taute, a Calamarie, or sleeue-fish. 1710 Sibbald History of Fife 54, I have found these Crabs, we call Keavies, eating the Slieve-Fish greedily. 1820 T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 127 On a table or dish, There shall lie a sleeve-fish. 1840 tr. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 340 The Sleeve-fish..have in the back, instead of a shell, a horny lamina in the shape of a sword or lancet. |