sculpin n also skulpin.
[1765] 1971 BANKS (ed Lysaght) 209 The Women he sayd fish for Skulpins (as they also do in Greenland) Early in the year when the Ice breaks. 1984 KALLEO 34 At low tide, the children fish for young sculpins amongst the beach rocks. A pebble, wrapped in a piece of seal intestine and tied on with thread, provide them with their fishing tackle. It will be a very tasty treat for mother. 1987 O'FLAHERTY 43 The net at Great Head...showed nothing but three sculpins and plenty of kelp. The sculpins were duly hauled on board, viciously 'softened' by his father on the gunwale with a special stick, and then extricated from the meshes. 1990 Evening Telegram 14 Jan, p. 5 He said sculpin and connors can be found [in St John's harbor], but very rarely.
