cusk

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As is the case with most of the detached ridges in this gulf, the cusk is the most abundant of the fish present about the middle of March.

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  1. noun A food fish (Brosme brosme) of North Atlantic coastal waters that is related to the cod.
  2. noun See burbot.

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  1. Probably alteration of tusk, a kind of codfish, perhaps from dialectal Norwegian, variant of Norwegian torsk, tosk, from Old Norse thorskr; see ters- in Indo-European roots.
 

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