cod-liver

Definitions

Rare form of cod liver.

countable, form-of, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Casks of rotting cod-liver taint the air at every fishing-stage and on every one of the hundreds of schooners, while even one small seal-oil factory is run⟳, in the Straits of Belle Isle.”

“I must not fail⟳ to mention⟳ that a distillery for the purpose of converting cod-livers into oil was established here last⟳ year by a New Yorker, but, through circumstances which are hard to explain⟳, the whole business failed entirely, and the plant⟳ was finally removed to Grand Greve, Gaspé, Quebec.”

“The Grimsby correspondent of the “Daily Mail” reports that the first trawler to be fitted with machinery to convert cod-livers into oil while at sea is the Sweeper, which arrived at Grimsby last⟳ week.”

“From the moment that first batch of fish⟳ was salted down that boat came alive with smells. The fresh smell⟳ of the sea, wafted by a stiff breeze off the ice-caps, was now displaced by the stench of rotting cod-livers.”

“The dory was high and dry on the beach, enveloped in the now familiar stench of rotting cod-livers.”

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