CODLIN; CODLING

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An apple fit to stew or coddle.

2.
n.

An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), 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.


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