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And away Tom went for seven days and seven nights due north-west, till he came to a great codbank, the like of which he never saw before.
The Water Babies 2007
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Victoria's crown, for there are eighty miles of codbank, and food for all the poor folk in the land.
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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And away Tom went for seven days and seven nights due north-west, till he came to a great codbank, the like of which he never saw before.
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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Victoria's crown, for there are eighty miles of codbank, and food for all the poor folk in the land.
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
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And away Tom went for seven days and seven nights due north-west, till he came to a great codbank, the like of which he never saw before.
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
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Victoria’s crown, for there are eighty miles of codbank, and food for all the poor folk in the land.
The Water Babies 2007
treeseed commented on the word codbank
Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged
noun
a submarine bank frequented by cod
"And away Tom went for seven days and seven nights due north-west, till he came to a great codbank, the like of which he never saw before. The great cod lay below in tens of thousands, and gobbled shell-fish all day long; and the blue sharks roved above in hundreds, and gobbled them when they came up."
_from Water Babies - Charles Kingsley, 1937
January 30, 2008