keeling

1) The cod-fish, although the exact sense seems to have varied from one locality to another, from large to small or even codling (OED).

1396 De Northsefare, Dcxxviij kelings, pretium de quibus in barrellis ccxxviij , Whitby

1444-5 vij kelynges iijs iijd , York

1534 too horse loodes of fresshe fisshe called fresshe lynge, haddokkes and kyllinges at Poumfreth .

dates 1396 1444-1445 1534

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