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Definition of Codders
1. codder [n] - See also: codder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codders
Literary usage of Codders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"Apparently the Cape codders began to read the story with an interest which ...
But the Cape codders desire pecuniary damages : $10000 for one plaintiff, ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1852)
"We had the pleasure of passing a day or two with the Cape codders, ... Upon the
whole, the Cape codders did not do on this occasion as well as they might ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature by London International Fisheries Exhibition (1884)
"On the east coast trawlers and codders work on the same principle, though sometimes
the whole crew may ... codders are sometimes entirely on weekly wages. ..."
4. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"It must have been my fancy then." " We should lie in the track of some ships,"
said the captain thoughtfully. " There's the codders and the herring-busses. ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"CAPITALISTS AND CAPE codders Flood Tide. By Sara Ware Basset!. Front, by ML Greer.
328 />. D Litt., B. $i.oo THERE is a certain type of quiet New England ..."
6. The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Thousands of Scenes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"I was, in common with the " Cape codders," following the ocean from 1859 to 186-t;
I was only home a few months —1862-63—and even then from our boys who ..."
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