Wiktionary
n. cod that has been dried and salted
WordNet
n. codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes
Usage examples of "salt cod".
His body was lean and hard, and he maintained it by regular exercise and a modest and abstemious diet which favored pineapples, Brazil nuts, and Saturday dinners of salt cod.
He takes a midnight stroll across the square, soon comfortably discusses a choice morsel of salt cod his tabby friend found among the ashes on the hearth before our converse turns to other matters.
Fish flakes, scaffolds of peeled spruce from the old days of making salt cod.
No longer could schooner captains return home at their leisure with a hold full of salt cod.
He loved the less popular fishes of the day, using tuna, squid, mackerel, bluefish and salt cod to great advantage.
Now we scratch in the ground and toss lines in the sea like other men, and count ourselves lucky if we have salt cod and porridge enough to get us through a winter.
There would be plenty of times when they'd all be living on salt cod and dog biscuit, but when the cooks had something better available they'd by-God know what to do with it.
Because Wolfe did not like the idea of sending anyone from his house hungry, because of his instinctive reaction to the challenge that salt cod couldn't be made edible, and because of my threat to tear up another check, the roomer was not bounced before dinner, and the tray that was prepared for the south room was inspected personally by Wolfe before Fritz took it up.
They might, I thought, if we threw the salt cod into the sea-water.