The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockling \Rock"ling\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various fishes of the Lotidae family. 2 Any of certain fishes from other families.
Wikipedia
Rockling is the vernacular name for a variety of fishes:
- Fish of the Lotidae family
- Australian rockling (Genypterus blacodes from the Ophidiidae family)
- Shore rockling (Gaidropsarus mediterraneus from the Gadidae family)
Usage examples of "rockling".
And the prawns and the crayfish and the rockling, they swam in and out above their heads: but Don Guzman he never heeded, but sat still, and drank his wine.
His companion was a bird, a hare, a jag-wasp the size of a dove, a rockling a fox a cactus-child, always with its tumour of mottlesome flesh moving upon it as it clung to the dangling man or kept pace with him, impossibly pushing whatever its body was from spire to spire of stone.