Also 7 kingstone, 8 king’s stone, kinson. A name for the angel-fish or monk-fish (Rhina squatina).
1666. Merrett, Pinax, 186. Squatina, a Kingstone.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xxi. 163. Fish in Season … Thornback, and Homlyn, Kinson, Oysters [etc.].
1769. Hewson, in Phil. Trans., LIX. 205. I next went to Brighthelmstone, where I found kingston, or monk-fish, a species of skate.
1836. Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, II. 407. It is common on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, where it is called a kingston.
