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  • N Pauline on Sun 17 Oct 2004, 04:55am. Flag this

    from OED, two possibilities—((( ))) indicating the editorial “me”
    Noun1
    The swimming bladder of certain fish, esp. of cod or sturgeon. So Norw. sund, also sundmage (Icel. sundmagi), f. mage stomach (maw). …(((among citations:)))… 1661 PEPYS Diary 16 Oct., This day dined..upon a fin of ling and some sounds.

    (((But this is interesting:)))

    Noun6 A cuttle-fish. …(((with this one citation)))… 1611 COTGR., Seche, the sound, or Cuttle-fish. [Hence in later Dicts.]

    (((Cuttle-fish being a type of squid.
    I wonder if Sam wasn’t eating Kalimaria on October 16, 1661.)))


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