cod-liver

cod-liver (countable and uncountable, plural cod-livers)

1. Rare form of cod liver.
   • 1901 November, W. T. Grenfell, “Life in Labrador”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXX, number MXXXIII, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], page 689, column 1:

     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.

   • 1905, Sessional Papers, Volume 9, First Session of the Tenth Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, Session 1905, volume XXXIX, page 334:

     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.

   • 1913 June 7, The Chemist and Druggist: A Weekly Journal of the Chemical and Drug Trades and of British Pharmacists throughout the Empire, volume LXXXII, number 23 (Series No. 1741), page 62, column 1:

     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.

   • 1934, Thelma Roberts, Red Hell: The Life Story of John Goode, Criminal‎, New York, N.Y.: Rae D. Henkle:

     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.

   • 1969, Farley Mowat, “Voyage of the “Oregon””, in The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 128:

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