"merling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English merlynge, from Old French merlenc, from Latin merula.",
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          "text": "1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,\nThe types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked."
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        "The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea."
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          "North Atlantic",
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          "Mediterranean Sea",
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          "Baltic Sea",
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          "Black Sea",
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          "sense": "Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK; in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus",
          "word": "English whiting"
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          "sense": "Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK; in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus",
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          "text": "1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,\nThe types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked."
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      "sense": "Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK; in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus",
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