cullage n Cp NID ~ n 'material eliminated in culling.' An inferior commercial grade or 'cure' of dried and salted cod-fish; also attrib. Cp BIM, REFUSE FISH.
   1845 Journ of Assembly Appendix, p. 221 Our Brig Triumvirate took a cargo of fish of 4100 qtls. to Naples early in January last, it turned out well, scarcely any cullage. 1928 FPU (Twillingate) Minutes 5 Oct [He] said that tal qual fish was $8.20 and Spanish $9 and cullage $5 in Port Union today. 1937 Seafisheries ofNfld 56 The standards of cull for Labrador codfish are:Choice or Number One. Prime or Number Two. Cullage. The class termed 'Cullage' includes all fish not up to the standard of Number Two. T 36-64 Now the fish is maggoty and it's slimy, an' I got to get out on the flake again with small tubs an' pickle an'wash it, and rewash it an' perhaps the weather'll continue on for a fortnight, an' when 'tis all over I got nothing only cullage fish. T 43-64 The way we knew the fish was number one, number two an' West India. West India now was supposed to be cullage. So that's the way it was graded. T 168/70-65 And then, tomcods—under twelve inches; an' then cullage—broken or sunburnt. That used to be all the cull in my day, but now today there's more culls than that on it. 1966 SCAMMELL 83 He threw fish after fish into the cullage pile, hardly bothering to look at the faces. 1979 TIZZARD 296 The shipment [included] 21 pounds of cullage at $7.00 per quintal.

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