† organ ling Obs.
Also abbreviated organ.
[Corrupted from orgas ling, comb. of orgas, orgays, q.v. Orkney ling was an etymological conjecture.]
A large kind of ling (fish).
| 1499– in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 320, VI. 392– [Earlier entries have orgays, orkays, orgas, orgas ling: see orgays.] Organ ling (many entries from Cambridge, Sion, Worksop, 1499–1593), orgayn ling (Camb. 1526); Organs (Camb. 1507–1623), organ (Camb. 1550–1627). 1526 Ord. Hen. VIII in Househ. Ord. (1790) 175 Organe Lyng—1 mess—3d. 1603 Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 42 Differinge as much from other people..as the Stockefishe or poore Johns doe from the lardge organ lynge. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Orgeis..is the greatest sort of North sea-fish, now adaies called Organ ling [1672 adds: corruptly from Orkney Ling, because the best are near that Island]. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 245 Standing every Fish-day as a cold Supporter at my Lord Mayor's Table, yet is it nothing but a long Cod, whereof the greater sized is called Organ-Ling, and the other Codling, because it is no longer than a Cod, and yet hath the Taste of Ling. [1887 Rogers Agric. & Prices V. 419 Ling, sometimes called organ or great ling.] |