A fish, also known as baldhrib or bauldrib.
English compound from 'bald' and 'rib,' likely referring to the fish's distinctive appearance or skeletal structure, though the exact connection is obscure in historical records.
Baldrib is one of those mysterious old English fish names that linguists struggle to match with modern species—it's probably extinct from common usage before we could photograph it!
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