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An apple fit to stew or coddle.

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  1. n. An apple fit to stew or coddle.
  2. n. An immature apple.
  3. n. A young cod; also, a hake.
  4. n. young codfish
  5. (a) An apple fit to stew or coddle. (b) An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop. A young cod; also, a hake.