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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499, 1568-1605
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Codling, n. Also: -lyng, coidleng, kodlein. [ME. codling (1314), dim. of cod.] A young or small cod-fish. 14.. Acts I. 305/2.
Of a thousand haddockis or quhytingis or codlyng a peny 1568 Dundee B. Laws 34.
Bringers of dry fisches … and small codlings & leying 1597 Halyb. p. cxv.
The last of keelling, codlings, and ling 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. b.
Margret Ollaws dochter … hes stowin twa kodleins fra Margret Fressall 1605 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 667/2.
To salt thair coidlengis, quytingis, and haddokis, and to send thame to France
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