What (who) is pollocking - definition
pollocking
The act of taking something that doesn't belong to you but no one else appears to be using
I pollocked some fence rails from a pile in the woods that had been untouched for years.
I pollocked some fence rails from a pile in the woods that had been untouched for years.
Pollock
![Global commercial capture of pollock in million tonnes 1950–2010<ref name=FAOdata>Based on data sourced from the relevant [http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/search/en FAO Species Fact Sheets]</ref>}}](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Time series for global capture of all pollock.png?width=200 "Global commercial capture of pollock in million tonnes 1950–2010<ref name=FAOdata>Based on data sourced from the relevant [http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/search/en FAO Species Fact Sheets]</ref>}}")
GENUS OF FISHES
Pollachius; Coal-fish; Minced pollock; Colin (fish); Pollack (fish)
·noun A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, ·etc.
