codline (kodlin)

A small hemp or cotton line used in fishing for cod. codling1 (kod'ling), n. [ If I be not deceived, I ha' seen Summer go up and down with hot codlings , and that little baggage, her daughter Plenty, crying six bunches of radish for a penny. Dekker and Ford , Sun's Darling, iii. 3. In the pease-field? has she a mind to codlings already? Ford and Dekker, Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1. [The first extract alludes to the custom of carrying peas spitted on straws for sale, with the familiar street-cry of "Hot codlings!" Duce .] 2t. [Often also codlin; early mod. E. also cod lyng, quodling, quadlin; appar. IMG:content-0733.png:[blocks in formation] codling (kod'ling), young cod, but applied to several different fish; dim. of cod2.] 1. The young of the common cod when about the size of the whiting. Day. A Codd, first a Whiting, then a Codling, then a Codd. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 215. 2. A gadoid fish of the genus Phycis, as the American P. chu and P. tenuis. IMG:content-0734.jpg:[blocks in formation] the family Codoncæcid a. C. cost at a is an American salt-water form, with an erect bell-shaped lorica upon a long rigid stalk. H. J. Clark, 1866. codonœcid (kō-dō-nē'sid), n. A member of the Codon acid a.