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Codling vs Coiling - What's the difference?

codling | coiling |

As nouns the difference between codling and coiling

is that codling is a small, young cod while coiling is the pattern or motion of something that coils.

As verbs the difference between codling and coiling

is that codling is present participle of lang=en while coiling is present participle of lang=en.

codling

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, young cod
  • * 1922 , Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'', part 4, chapter 2, ''The Fidgit's Story :
    • “Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …”
  • A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus .

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    * Some dictionaries including Merriam-Webster online list (etyl) querdlyng, being equivalent to modern (-ling). * Some dictionaries including Collins online list “Unknown”.

    Alternative forms

    * codlin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, immature apple
  • * 1601–02 , , Twelfth Night , act 1, scene 5:
    • Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
    for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
    when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
    betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
    and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
    mothers milke were scarse out of him
  • * 1800 , Hannah Glasse and Maria Wilson, The Complete Confectioner'', ''Creams, &c. :
    • To make Codling' Cream.
    Take twenty fair '     codlings     , core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
  • Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
    • See also codling moth, which plant their lavae in apples.

    References

    * English terms with unknown etymologies

    coiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pattern or motion of something that coils.
  • * (Herman Melville), The Encantadas
    • Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"