StockfishI will beat thee like a stockfish. Moffet and Bennet, in their Health's Improvement (p. 262), inform us that dried cod, till it is beaten, is called buckhorn, because it is so tough; but after it has been beaten on the stock, it is termed stockfish. (In French, etriller quelqu'un, a double carillon, “to a pretty tune.”) “Peace! thou wilt be beaten like a stockfish else.” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Stockfish from Infoplease:
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