blood n
   1 1981 MAJOR 78 'You blood-of-a-bitch!' I fired down my books and grabbed into the last fellow who spoke. 1987 FELT 1 'Take the bloods of bitches to the gallows' [fisherman instructing his son to take some 'slubbed'--and hence unfishable--nets to the drying rack].
   2 Comb ~ end: that part of the 'sound bone' of a cod which is removed when the fish is split, a portion of the flesh adhering to the bone and cooked as a delicacy (P 113-87); RISE END.
   P 300-89 ~ the end of the sound bone closest to the tail.

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