Sillock

//ˈsɪ.lək// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish. Scotland

Etymology

From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from Old Norse síl, síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.

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