Carrying fish from the boat to the house
Once you catch the fish, you must clean the fish…..here’s some vocabulary to
Gut Fish.
Sampling of words that are just as good in the 17th century as the 21st - and by no means the last words on the subject
citings from the OED
BONE (V) – To take out the bones
1552 - “Bonen, or plucke oute bones”
GARBAGE – To disembowel, to gut fish
1610 – “Pilchards are there taken, garbaged, salted, hanged in the smoke”
GILLS – 1519 ”Fysshes breth at theyr gyllys”
GUT (v) – to take the guts of (fish); to eviscerate
1599 “Lay it scaled and gutted sixe houres in salt”
GUTS – the inward parts or bowels
1580 – “garbishes or guttes of things”
FIN – an organ attached to the body of fishes to serve for steering and propelling in water
1599 – “The…fish had on every side a wing, and toward the taile two other lesser as it were finnes.”
SCALE – to remove scales from fish
1598 – “The fish you would rost would not be scaled”
VENT – n2 b – the anus, anal or excretory opening of animals, esp. certain non-mammalian, as fish – 1587
Fish head - the beard tells you it's a cod.....(Gadus morhua)
Tags: cod, cod head, fishing, garbage, guts
I’ve never cared for the word “eviscerate.” It sounds so brutal. I certainly hope no one ever eviscerates me!