Obs. Also cor-fish. Salt cod, salt fish as distinguished from dry or stock-fish. (Cf. CORVED.)
(The first quot. is of doubtful meaning.)
1619. B. Jonson, For Honour of Wales, Wks. (Rtldg.), 612/1. A salmon, cor, or chevin, Will feed you six or seven.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, VI. 210. They take nothing but small Cod, whereof the greatest they make Cor-fish, and the rest is hard dried, which we call Poore-John. Ibid., VI. 204. Of dry fish we made about forty thousand, of Cor-fish about seuen thousand…. The best of this fish was sold for 5 li. the hundred.
