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noun fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
originInherited from Middle English stokfissh, stokfysch, from Middle Dutch stocvisch and/or Middle Low German stokvisch (“stick fish”), because the fish are dried on sticks or poles. Equivalent to stock + fish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0