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tommy-cod 
1 n. a small food fish, Microgadus tomcod, of the St. Lawrence River and adjacent waters.
See also: frost fish petite morue tom-cod (def. 2a)
- 1808 (1809) The Canadians call them petite Morue; the English call them Tommy cod.
- 1818 The Fish of this Island are, cod, herrings . . . eels, smelts, tomy-cod, elwives, &c.
- 1822 (1955) There are also bass, haddock, sturgeon, perch, flounders, eels, tomey-cod, alewives &c.
- 1833 Tommy-cods are plenty; the river nearly froze over, but as the d--1 would have it, thawed again.
- 1952 In quick succession, we flicked tommy cod and gasperos from the holes.
- 1961 . . . now [winter carnivals] they're coming back . . . with . . . a tommy-cod derby at Ste Anne de la Perade, Que. . . .
- 1965 Each winter the [Ste.Anne river] is home to millions of tommycod, small fish of the cod family that come from the St. Lawrence to spawn
2 n. a freshwater cod, Lota iota maculosa; burbot.
- 1808 (1809) The Canadians call them petite Morue; the English call them Tommy cod.