Definition of codfish

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Codfish (n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

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Crapefish :: Crapefish (n.) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
Dunfish :: Dunfish (n.) Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality..
Boned :: Boned (a.) Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish..
Whiting :: Whiting (n.) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
Stockfish :: Stockfish (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted..
Torsk :: Torsk (n.) The codfish. Called also tusk.
Scrode :: Scrode (n.) A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed..
Poor :: Poor (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Dorse :: Dorse (n.) The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish..
Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;
Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish..
Dun :: Dun (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance..
Codfish :: Codfish (n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod.
Spalting Knife :: Spalting knife () A knife used in splitting codfish.
Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..
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