icefish — ONAD

icefish /ˈīsˌfiSH, ˈaɪsˌfɪʃ

▸ noun

(plural same or icefishes)

1 a scaleless Antarctic fish of pallid appearance with spiny gill covers and a snout shaped like a duck's bill.

Chaenocephalus aceratus, family Chaenichthyidae.

2 another name for capelin.

▸ verb (ice-fish) [no object] fish through holes in the ice on a frozen lake or river:

I'm taking a couple of my scouts up to ice-fish, to finish off their fishing merit badge

ice-fish for perch.