codskin

plural codskins

1. countableuncountableThe skin of a cod, especially that which is cured as leather.

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   Norway is the land where extremes meet; where you can simultaneously see day-light, dying and returning to life; where dwarfs are as numerous as giants, and the lepers as healthy individuals. There are no stalls in this Norwegian Sheltery, but a number of tiny Scandinavian chalets. Reading the explanatory cards, an Anglo-Saxon will at perceive the first cousinship between the English and Norwegian languages. Beer is apparently much brewed; there are maps indicating the manners and customs of microbes in food preparations: there are specimens of beer in the different stages of fermentation; the spectacle is enough to drive the most thirsty soul into blue-ribbonism. It would seem, that they are microbes, and not brewers, that make beer. The collection of skulls and tusks of seals and whales is very complete; there are "salted" seal skins—perhaps the better to "preserve" against cold. There is a specimen of tanned codskin, that the English and American governments ought to secure, to bind the Fishery Treaty—when signed. There are bears' skins as white as the crest of Mt. Blanc, and eider down, fit only for bedding for cherubim and seraphim.

   1889 August 17, “Foreign Contribution. Paris Letter. Paris, 29th June, 1888”, in The Chinese Times, volume III, number 146, Tianjin, page 525

   Polish coastal labor cooperatives have begun tanning codskin for use in the production of women's footwear. Tanned codskin is said to be similar to ordinary animal skin in texture and has the appearance of lizard skin. Experiments also are being made in using the skin of sea catfish in producing fancy goods such as handbags and portfolios. Similar experiments in other European countries during the war years were not commercially successful.

   1948 November 15, “Footwear from codskin, Poland. Leather and Related Products [column]”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume 33, number 7, United States Department of Commerce, page 31

   […] indicated that the three particles that make up the single coil do not have the same amino acid composition. Dr. HIGHBERGER: I might add that after Doty had gone through that, it was also done with calfskin and codskin collagen. The Gustavson rule is followed in this particular case, in that the hydroxyproline content of each of these collagens is different, the highest content being at the highest massive shrinkage temperature and the […]

   1959, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, volume 54, page 386