codfish

When the butter is foaming, lay in a batch of floured codfish chunks in one layer, not crowded.

"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.

On the 11th of May, the sounding lead was cast, and bottom was found at 80b fathoms; a sign that they were upon the Codfish Banks.

Here's my daughter run away to be married with the coolest, freshest, limber-tongued young codfish that ever escaped salting.

The first land he saw he named Cape Cod, because he found so many codfish there.

For that reason they fished diligently, and soon used a huge codfish as an emblem for the Massachusetts Bay colony.