Frostfish

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The Smelt.

II. Frostfish ·noun A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

III. Frostfish ·noun The tomcod;

— so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. ·see Tomcod.