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• rock-cod

  A species of cod found on a rocky bottom. ...

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• black rock-cod

  n. an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• red rock-cod

  n. name given in New South Walesto the fish Scorpaena cardinalis, Richards., family Scorpaenidae, m...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Cod

  ·noun A pillow or cushion. II. Cod ·noun A small bag or pouch. III. Cod ·noun A husk; a pod; as, a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cod

  A cod of money: a good sum of money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cod

  n. This common English name of the Gadus morrhua is applied to many fishes in Australia ofvarious f...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cod

  a pillow or cushion ; princod, a pin-cushion; a horse-cod, a horse-collar. N. Princod is also figura...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cod

  The centre of a deep bay. The bay of a trawl or seine. Also, the Gadus morrhua, one of the most impo...

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• Rock

  ·noun ·see <<Roc>>. II. Rock ·noun The striped bass. ·see under <<Bass>>. III. Rock ·noun That whi...

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• Rock

  (Heb. tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Sam. 2:2; 2 Sam. 22:3; Isa. 17:10; ...

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• rock

  1) A piece of money. A slang term peculiar to the South. Spare my feelings, Squire, and don't ask m...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• rock

  An extensive geological term, but limited in hydrographical parlance to hard and solid masses of the...

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• Cod liver

  ·noun The liver of the common cod and allied species. ...

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• Cultus cod

  ·- ·see <<Cod>>, and Buffalo cod, under <<Buffalo>>. ...

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• cod piece

  The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite, master? where, in the cod piece or collar?--a jocul...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rum cod

  A good purse of gold. CANT. ...

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• black-cod

  n. a New Zealand fish, Nototheniaangustata. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• blue-cod

  n. name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• murray-cod

  n. an important fresh-waterfood-fish, Oligorus macquariensis, Cuv. and Val., called Kookoobal by th...

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• cod-glove

  a thick glove, without fingers, to handle turf. Exm. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• pin-cod

  a pincushion. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• prin-cod

  a pin-cushion. Figuratively, a short fat man or woman. ...

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• bean-cod

  A small fishing-vessel, or pilot-boat, common on the sea-coasts and in the rivers of Spain and Portu...

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• blown cod

  A split cod, half dried by exposure to the wind. Blown is also frequently applied to bloated herring...

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• cod-bait

  The large sea-worm or lug, dug from the wet sands. The squid or cuttle, herrings, caplin, any meat, ...

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• cod-line

  An eighteen-thread line. ...

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• cod-sounds

  The swim-bladders of the cod-fish, cured and packed for the market; the palates also of the fish are...

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• tommy cod

  A very small variety of the Gadus morrhua, which mostly appears in the winter months; whence it is a...

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• cod-whangers

  See whangers ...

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• Bed rock

  ·- The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. ...

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• Pay rock

  ·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

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• Rock shaft

  ·- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, — usually carrying levers by means...

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• Rock staff

  ·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. ...

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• lily, rock

  n. an orchid, Dendrobiumspeciosum, Smith, N.O. Orchideae. although not aLily, it is always so calle...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock lily

  n. See under lily. ...

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• rock-ling

  n. a marine fish. The AustralianR. is Genypterus australis, Castln., family Ophidiidae. The Europea...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-native

  or Native n. a namegiven to the fish called a Schnapper when it hasceased to «school.» See Schnapp...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-parrakeet

  n. an Australian Grass-Parrakeet (q.v.), Euphema petrophila, Gould.It gets its name from its habita...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-pebbler

  n. another name for the Black-tailed Parrakeet. See Parrakeet. ...

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• rock-perch

  n. the name given in Melbourneto the fish Glyphidodon victoriae, Gunth., family Pomacentridae, or C...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-shelter

  n. a natural cave-dwellingof the aborigines. See Gibber-Gunyah. 1891. R. Etheridge, jun., in `Reco...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-wallaby

  n. the popular name for anyanimal of the genus Petrogale (q.v.). There are sixspecies – – Brush-tai...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock led

  rash and forward, in children. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blind-rock

  One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms. ...

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• rock-hind

  A large fish of tropical regions, Serranus catus. ...

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• rock-scorpion

  A name applied to persons born at Gibraltar. ...

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• sunken rock

  That which lies beneath the surface of the sea, and is dangerous to navigation. ...

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• cloudy-bay cod

  n. a New Zealand name for the Ling (q.v.). See also cod. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cod-fisher's crew

  The crew of a banker, or fishing-vessel, which anchors in 60 or 70 fathoms on the Great Bank of Newf...

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• Etam, The Rock

  a cliff or lofty rock, into a cleft or chasm of which Samson retired after his slaughter of the Phil...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Oreb, The Rock

  the "raven's crag," the spot, east of Jordan, at which the Midianite chieftain Oreb with thousands o...

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• Oreb, The rock of

  The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg. 7:25; Isa. 10:26). It was...

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