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Webster 1913 Edition
Codling
{
, Cod′lin
,Cod′ling
}Noun.
[Cf. AS.
codæppel
a quince.] (a)
An apple fit to stew or coddle.
(b)
An immature apple.
A
codling
when ’t is almost an apple. Shakespeare
Codling moth
(Zool.)
, a small moth (
Carpocapsa Pomonella
), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.Cod′ling
,Noun.
[Dim. of
cod
the fish.] (Zool.)
A young cod; also, a hake.