SC - Re: Honey

[allilyn@juno.com]

The OED has two quotations for the expression in question; the latter
suggests that it was a kind of flat fish:

"squary (...) Square-shaped; squarish.

1602 Carew Cornwall 35 Some gutted and kept in pickle, as the lesser
Whitings, Pollocks, Eeles, and Squarie Scads.

Ibid. 320 Of flat [fish there are] Brets, Turbets, Dories, Squary Scad,
Seale, Tunny, and many others. (...)"

Perhaps these books could be useful for further enquiry:
- -- Hoffmann, R.C.: Fishers' craft and lettered art. Tracts on fishing
from the end of the Middle Ages. Toronto (Univ. of Toronto Press) 1997.
- -- Westwood, Th./ Satchell, Th.: Bibliotheca piscatoria. A catalogue of
books on angling, the fisheries and fish-culture (...). London 1883.

Thomas