A small herring, sand eel, or similar small fish found in northern European waters, particularly around Scotland.
Variant of 'garvie,' from Scots and Northern English dialect with possible Scandinavian origins like Old Norse 'gervingr,' showing regional phonetic variation in the same word.
Garvock and garvie are the same fish—different regions and fishermen just pronounced it differently—reminding us that written English standardization is actually quite recent, and for centuries fishing communities spoke completely differently about the same waters.
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