hardfish

1) Evidently cod, ling, and the like, salted and dried (OED) although the examples quoted there were from Scotland and first noted as late as the early 1800s.

Two fourteenth-century Yorkshire by-names may have been occupational nicknames: 1377 Robertus hardfyscheman, Newton Waleys

1379 Clemencia Hardfysch, Pontefract. Latin documents point to its much earlier use: 1301-2 et cc duri piscis, Bolton Priory.

dates 1301-1302 1377

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