curing vbl n Cp OED ~ 2 (1791 quot); Shetland Truck System (1872), p. 7 for sense 1.
   1 The process of preserving fish by salting, drying, etc; MAKING.
   [1693] 1793 REEVES ii ... and liberty to go on shore or any part of Newfoundland, or any of the said islands, for the curing, salting, drying, and husbanding of their fish. [1898] 1905 Nfld Law Reports 23 From ... the method of curing and sending [fish) to market, it is the common practice of the island to take it off the rooms at different times.
   2 The processing of cod-liver oil.
   1931 Nfld Mag & Advertiser 13 He has done more to educate our people in the curing of refined cod liver oil and up-to-date methods of packing herring, than any other person in Newfoundland.

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