Frostfish

1. n. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
2. n. The tomcod; — so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
3. n. The smelt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.