codlins

In July come gilliflowers of all varieties; musk – roses; the lime – tree in blossom; early pears and plums in fruit; jennetings, codlins.

The Essays 2007

Thus, in the baskets, and quivering in the hopper of the mill, she saw specimens of mixed dates, including the mellow countenances of streaked-jacks, codlins, costards, stubbards, ratheripes, and other well-known friends of her ravenous youth.

The Woodlanders 2006

Take codlins when they are at their full growth, and of the greenest sort, take a little out of the end with the stalk, and then take out the core; lie them in a strong salt and water, let them lie ten days or more, and fill them with the same ingredients as you do other mango, only scald them oftner.

English Housewifery 2004

Jack; "but what had that to do with hot codlins: a codlin is a fish, is it not?"

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

If Macready had been engaged for Clown, and set down to sing "hot codlins;" were Palmerston "secured" for Pierrot, or Lord Monteagle for Jim Crow, who would have wondered?

Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various

In July come gilliflowers of all varieties; musk-roses; the lime-tree in blossom; early pears and plums in fruit; jennetings, 8 codlins.

XLVI. Of Gardens 1909

Heaps of early green codlins from the orchard had been disposed at regular intervals, and competitors might select from which pile they wished, so long as they took neither more nor less than the one required specimen in every round, the object being to prevent a general scramble.

The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907

This is the imago or mature form of the insect known as the codlin-moth (it lives on codlins or apples).

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

All windfalls and maggot-cored codlins were excluded from the apple pies; and as there was no known dish large enough for the purpose, the puddings were stirred up in the milking-pail, and boiled in the three-legged bell - metal crock, of great weight and antiquity, which every travelling tinker for the previous thirty years had tapped with his stick, coveted, made a bid for, and often attempted to steal.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Thus, in the baskets, and quivering in the hopper of the mill, she saw specimens of mixed dates, including the mellow countenances of streaked-jacks, codlins, costards, stubbards, ratheripes, and other well-known friends of her ravenous youth.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884