Definition of "whitings" [whitings]

• Plural form of whiting. (noun)

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• "I bought some speldings, fish (generally whitings) salted and dried in a particular manner, being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun, and eaten by the Scots by way of a relish."
• "Nevertheless, we have excellent soles, skaite, flounders and whitings, and sometimes mackarel."
• "This she had not thought worthy of communication, any more than that there lived a fisherman at next door, who was then provided with plenty of soles, and whitings, and lobsters, far superior to those which adorn a city feast."