twice-laid

English

Noun

twice-laid (uncountable)

1. (slang, nautical, archaic) A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.
   • 1837, The Athenaeum, page 741:

     There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary