DCHP-3

fish pile

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.

Quotations

1861
When sufficiently dry, a fine warm day is chosen to lay the fish out, singly, on a large stage; and during the hottest hours they are made up into a "fish pile,"--which is a large quantity of dry fish, built up in the form of a round haystack.