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skilfish
[< Haida squil + fish]
Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:skil
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a large dark gray or black food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, of the Pacific Coast.
See: sablefish
Quotations
1897
One of the most delicious of deep water fish is the skil, or black cod, as it is sometimes called.
1907
Skil [is a] local name of the black candle-fish (Anoplopoma fimbria), an excellent food fish of the waters of the N. Pacific Coast. . . .
1964
The sablefish . . . is smoked and sold under the name of "black cod". . . . The sablefish belongs to the skilfish family . . . the giant skilfish . . . may attain a weight of 200 pounds.