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n. (context US dialectal very rare English) herring, especially if caught and cured (or smoked) near any of the various northeastern American places named Quoddy or Passamquoddy.
Wikipedia
Quoddy can mean the following places:
Canada- East Quoddy, Nova Scotia
- West Quoddy, Nova Scotia
- Quoddy Head State Park in Maine
- West Quoddy Head Light in Maine
Usage examples of "quoddy".
When Mark had pushed us through the doorway and lighted a candle, we found ourselves in a cottage little bigger than the cuddy of a Quoddy boat.
Then he went to the window, one facing north toward the area that had been the scene, some fifteen years before, of the Quoddy project for harnessing the resources of the terrific Fundy tides.
A thin fog veiled the area, but he could see the stony islands that had been intended as an anchor for one of the dams that had never been built because Congress had concluded Quoddy was just so much dream stuff.
There was a newscast about a congressional discussion of the subject of going ahead with the dormant Quoddy project, and Renwick, the noted engineer, being employed to make a survey and recommendations to the committee.
Built as part of a gigantic project to harness the mighty tides that pour in from the great Bay of Fundy, the village was now basking in temporary abeyance, almost deserted, yet not a ghost town, for proponents of the Quoddy Project were still working to revive the plan.
From Cape Elizabeth on the west to Quoddy Head on the east, there are over a thousand large and small islands, nearly all of which are of bold formation and most of them wholly or in part covered with a growth of spruce and fir.