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Definition of Rock salmon

1. Noun. Any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food.

Definition of Rock salmon

1. Noun. (British) A marketing name for the flesh of the dogfish shark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Salmon

Literary usage of Rock salmon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seventy Years of Irish Life: Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences by William Richard Le Fanu (1893)
"Shooting and fishing—Good snipe grounds—Killarney and Powerscourt—My fishing record—Playing a rock—Salmon flies—Salmon and trout—Grattan's ..."

2. Seventy Years of Irish Life: Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences by William Richard Le Fanu (1893)
"... Shooting and fishing — Good snipe grounds — Killarney and Powerscourt — My fishing record — Playing a rock — Salmon flies — Salmon and trout — Grattan's ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... and undoubtedly the true stock dove from which the domestic pigeon is derived."—John Hancock, Birds of Northumberland and Durham, p. 85. ROCK-SALMON ..."

4. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"... from which the domestic pigeon is derived."—John Hancock, Birds of Northumberland and Durham, p. 85. ROCK-SALMON, the ..."

5. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1901)
"W. Rock. Salmon River, middle fork, sixty miles from main Salmon River. In 1897 trappers reported 2000 to 2500 head.—WW Miner. Oregon.—Southeastern. 1887. ..."

6. Memories of the Months: Being Pages from the Notebook of a Field-naturalist by Herbert Maxwell (1897)
"Below this rock salmon congregate, waiting for a flood to carry them up; here the nets are plied incessantly, and it is seldom that any large number escape ..."

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