cod oil

1. 1.

   an inferior cod-liver oil that is used in leather manufacturing

   Broadercod-liver oil

Questions about cod oil

What does cod oil mean?

cod oil means "an inferior cod-liver oil that is used in leather manufacturing".

Is cod oil a common word?

cod oil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.