blubber v
   1 To smear or coat wooden objects or structures with rendered cod livers as a preservative against the salt water.
   T 96/8-464¹ I'd go down in the stage and I'd get the big blubber tub, and a bucket, and I'd blubber all the gangboards, all the tawts over with the blubber. T 169/70-65² Only the 'lums' o' the paddles was blubbered.
   2 To hurl rotted cod livers; to assault by smearing with cod oil; cp SOD V.
   1900 DEVINE & O'MARA 76 Women of Foxtrap blubbered and pickled the railway surveyors and made them retreat [in] 1882.

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