cod-liver
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "The dory was high and dry on the beach, enveloped in the now familiar stench of rotting cod-livers."