366 GURNARD— HAKE 



gaverick, gawdnie, gawrie, girnat, girnet, girnot, goldfish, goniuit, 

 goukney, gowdie, gowkney, grey crooner, grumbler, gurnaid, 

 gurney; Hardhead, horn-back beak or fish, hump-back; Knowd ; 

 Lantern or lanthorn, long-finned captain, lyra fish ; Noud, nowd ; 

 Peeper, pied-annech, piper; Rabbit-fish, red gurnard or tubs, 

 rochet (A. S.), rotchet (red) ; Sea-crow or hen, shiner, skulpin, 

 smoothsides, soldier, sooter (dragonet), sordid dragonet ; Tub or 

 tube-bat or fish ; Windy sparl, woof; Yellow skulpin. 



Said to be from an ancient British word, signifying firm or 

 rugged structure. " Crooner," etc., is a name given from the 

 crooning or grunting sound the fish emits ; in Gaelic this sound is 

 interpreted "na bruth," squeeze not. This fish is of the " Piper " 

 species. 



By gourmands this fish was supposed to be poor eating, and had 

 to be pickled in vinegar to give them a taste, when they were 

 called "soured" gurnets. This term in Shakespeare is said to 

 mean " gudgeon," a term of reproach. 



Ceann cnodain, aon de thri cinn nach fhiach itheadh. 

 A gurnet's head, one of three heads not fit to eat. 



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HADDOCK. — Adag; Codag, codog, cudag ; Garbhanach 

 (silver), glas-iasg ; Suil-charbh (silver). 



Attac ; Bergylt (Norwegian), buckthorn (hard dried) ; Cameral, 

 cawmril (spawned), Crail capon (dried) ; Finnan (Findhorn), 

 fintrum-speldrin ; Gamrel (spawned), gilp (large), golden haddock ; 

 Haadie, haddag, haddie, haddo, harrowster (sjiawned); Jaune 

 Jean or John Doree or dory (golden yellow) ; Kameril (spawned) ; 

 Mulvell ; Nockie (dried), Norwegian ; Pow-ee ; Smokie, speldrin. 



Ball dubh air an adaig or thada bhall dubh air an adaig, a black 

 spot (or two) on the haddock ; iasg Pheadail, iasg Pheadair runaich, 

 Peter's, loving Peter's fish, two terms used to this fish. The 

 two black spots are said to have been caused by Christ having 

 taken one in His hand. Another, from the miracle of the loaves 

 and fishes, is that the two jawbones, the older the better, cure 

 toothache. The haddock called Norwegian or Bergylt is alleged 

 to be a kind of gurnard. Eribol in Sutherland used to be 

 proverbially famed for haddocks. Scott, in the Antiquari/j speaks 

 of "Crappit heads," which are the heads of haddocks cooked with 

 a stuffing of oatmeal, suet, onions, and pepper ; he also refers to 

 "reisted " haddocks, i.e., smoke dried. 



HAKE. — Colamoir ; Falamair, falmair. 



Cornish salmon; Forked hake; Haering (A. S.), hakes-darae, 



