lunenburg cure
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This is necessary in order not only to hold the markets which the Lunenburg cure has had control over many years, but also to enter new markets and […]"
- "[A report] investigating the Fisheries of the Maritime Provinces in 1928 stated : There is no doubt that if the Lunenburg cure were better prepared, markets could be broadened[…]"
- "It handled the light-salted Gaspé cure, the medium Nova Scotia cure, the heavy-salted Lunenburg cure, and the Canadian Labrador cure, and used them to ..."
- "The Maritime Merchant lamented the long-term damage to the salt-fish trade, as the absence of the "Lunenburg cure" from the fish markets […]"
- "“The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean."
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Lunenburg cure (canonical)