count-fish

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a large Schnapper (q.v.). See Cock-Schnapper.

1874. `Sydney Mail,' `Fishes and Fishing in New South Wales':

«The ordinary schnapper or count fish implies that all of acertain size are to count as twelve to the dozen, the shoal orschool-fish eighteen or twenty-four to the dozen, and thesquire, thirty or thirty-six to the dozen – – the latter justaccording to their size, the redbream at per bushel.»

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