Jonathan Roper wrote:
> an alternative name for a "codling" used on the Yorkshire coast,
Wright's English Dialect Dictionary has this, and is surely worth browsing for related information:
CODLING, sb.1 n. Yks.2 [kodlin.] A young cod-fish.
[A codd, first a whiting, then a codling, then a codd,
Holme Armory (1688) 324.]
Keith
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