Stockfishmonger

Quick meaning: Stockfishmonger is a noun meaning A seller of stockfish.

Meaning

A seller of stockfish.

Example Sentences

St Michael, Crooked Lane provides an example of the small London parish dominated by one trade, in this case the stockfishmongers.

East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.

Crowding High Street and its crisscrossing rows and alleys, a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.

In 1392, two citizens of Lynn received a licence to send their ships to Norway to buy stockfish, and two London stockfishmongers stood their sureties. A London guild had no monopoly over its trade, so a stockfishmonger could also trade in other goods if he so wished. Many stockfishmongers were active in the corn trade between eastern English towns and London, which must have grown out of transporting their stockfish from eastern ports to the city.

Word Forms

• stockfishmongers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fishmonger, fishseller, fishman, flour-monger, breadmonger, stockman.

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