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Quotation dates: 1502-1549, 1650-1700
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Podlok, Podlo, Podly, Podline, n. Also: -lock, -loche; -ley(e; -ler. [Perh. an early form of 17th c. and mod. Eng. pollack; of unknown origin. Common in the mod. dial. as podlie, podla, etc.] The young of the coalfish at the second stage of its development; ? also, the true pollack.(a) 1502 Treasurer's Accounts II 148.
Podlokis 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV 6 a.
For xxx podlokis iiii d. 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 7. ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1961) 77.
Thair is gottin amang the roch stanes … flewkis, podlokis [v.r. -loches] schaytis and little hering c1650-1700 Descr. Zetland 41.
Seath, sea-dogs (here called hoes) and podlocks (here p[i]lltocks) which three last are very beneficial by reason of the oyl they make of their livers(b) 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 8.
Spouttis, bukez, solis, podlois 1529 Ib. App. 25.
Podlos 1684 Insh Colonial Schemes 171.
Excepting podloes at the shore head(c) 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 285.
For ilk load of salmond, … pearches, podleyes, skait, spirlings [etc.] 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 23.
Asellus fuscus, nostratibus a podly(d) c 1680 Coll. Aberd. & B. 98.
The seas abound with fishes such as … seaths, podlers gaudnes [etc.](e) c1650-1700 Descr. Zetland 8.
Well stored with all common sort of fishes, … but especially with podlines (young sheaths) called by the inhabitants polltacks
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