codling - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

codling n.

Forms	codling n. Also code-.
Etymology	From cod (2).

(a) A young or small cod; ?also, a cod-like fish; (b) loosely or erroneously glossing Latin fish names.

(1289) R.Swinfield in Camd.5931 : In..codling[is] empt[is].
(1305) MSS Middleton in HMC324 : In codling empt[is] x d.
(1375) Peace R.Lin.in Lin.RS 30228 : Forstallatores piscium, videlicet buttys, schullys, codelynges, wilkys, et aliorum piscium.
(1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5273/16 : Pro codelynges.
(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.47 : Haddok, codlyng, and hake.
?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)437 : Of playsse or of codlynge.
?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)446 : Lyver of codlynge sothen.
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)85 : Codlynge, fysh: Morus.
a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)18 : Trype of Turbut or of Codelynge: Take þe Mawes of Turbut, Haddok, or Codelyng [etc.].
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)41 : Take turbut, haddok, and gode codlyng.
?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)35 : Tak codlinge haddok whiting.
a1500 Herkyn to my tale (Adv 19.3.1)p.81 : At tho kyrke dore called the codlyng, and badd lett hym yn. Tho samond sang tho hee mas, tho heyryng was hys clarke.