Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The young of the common cod when about the size of the whiting.
  • noun A gadoid fish of the genus Phycis, as the American P. chuss and P. tenuis.
  • noun plural Green peas.
  • noun An unripe apple.
  • noun An apple to be stewed, or used only when stewed.
  • noun One of several cultivated varieties of kitchen apple with large or medium-sized fruit.
  • noun A testicle. Sylvester, Du Bartas.
  • noun plural Limestones partially burnt.
  • noun A balk sawed into lengths for staves.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A young cod; also, a hake.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small, immature apple
  • noun Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
  • verb Present participle of codle.
  • noun A small, young cod
  • noun A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun young codfish

Etymologies

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codle +‎ -ing

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cod +‎ -ling

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Examples

  • - One of the main problems when growing apples and pears is a pest called the codling moth, the pink-white grubs of which How can I stop my marrows from getting powdery mildew without using chemicals?

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  • Beyond Rush Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "last man standing" against Obama worship, mocking Obama for, among other things, painting a wall in a homeless shelter in a call for national service as codling the poor, most criticism of Obama from the right takes the form of criticism of the financial bailout and the economic stimulus plan.

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  • You start counting days after that minumum temperature and then you spray your codling killer, pyrethrin in this case.

    Mifflin Library and the rapidly aging farmer scusteister 2008

  • Modern Technology for me is a max/min thermometer that will tell me when the biofix for the codling moth is in.

    Mifflin Library and the rapidly aging farmer scusteister 2008

  • Those republicans who are greedy (as most are) are given the promise of getting rich, big tax cuts, cutting crime by not codling the poor ‘black man’ and welfare queens while they kill any of them that are ‘dangerous’.

    Think Progress » The Truth About the Buses 2005

  • But in the USA our dumb ed down “for Profit” media will continue codling these folks until half of our damn population are dim witted asshats!

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  • At first I thought it was the oriental fruit moth; then I was sure it was the brown marmorated stink bug; this year I blamed codling moths.

    The City scusteister 2006

  • • Cooking apples are distinctly tart when raw a pH around 3 and sugar content around 12%, well-balanced when cooked, and have a firm flesh that tends to maintain its structure when heated in pies or tarts, rather than falling immediately into a puree or—as in some early “codling” varieties— into a fluffy froth.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • • Cooking apples are distinctly tart when raw a pH around 3 and sugar content around 12%, well-balanced when cooked, and have a firm flesh that tends to maintain its structure when heated in pies or tarts, rather than falling immediately into a puree or—as in some early “codling” varieties— into a fluffy froth.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Also sometimes middling turbot, with whiting, codling and large flounders; the small fish, as above, they sell in the country.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

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