Codling1. World English Historical Dictionary

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Also 4–5 codlyng(e, 5 codelynge, 6 kodlynge, 7 codlin. [f. COD sb.3 + -LING, dim. suffix.]

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  1.  A young or small cod. (In early cookery often treated as a distinct fish; and prob. the name included allied species of smaller size.)

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1314.  in Wandr. Acc. 8 Edw. II., 21/12. I codling 12d.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 41. Take turbot, haddok, and gode codlyng.

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c. 1425.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 642/16. Hic mullus, codlyng. Ibid. (c. 1475), 763. Hic crocodolus, a codlyng.

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1513.  W. de Worde, Bk. Keruynge, B iv a. Makrell & whytynge, haddocke and codlynge.

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1648.  Herrick, Hesper., Temple, 61. Whose linnen-drapery is a thin, Subtile, and ductile codlin’s skin.

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1655.  Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 245. Called … Codling, because it is no longer than a Cod, and yet hath the taste of Ling.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, 324. How several sorts of Fish are named, according to their Age or Growth … A Codd, first a Whiting, then a Codling, then a Codd.

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1740.  R. Brookes, Art of Angling, II. xxx. 138. The Cod…; those that are small are call’d Codlings.

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1865.  J. G. Bertram, Harvest Sea, x. (1873), 206. Smoked codlings are extensively sold for Finnan haddocks.

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1877.  Blackie, Wise Men, 71.                    I knew a fisherman Who vouched me once a single cod contains Some hundred myriad codlings in its roe.

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  b.  attrib.

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1496.  Bk. St. Albans, Fishing, 34. To take hym [pyke] … Take a codlynge hoke.

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  2.  In America applied to fishes of the genus Phycis, allied to the cod.

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