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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the process of preparing and drying codfish.
See: make fish
Quotations
1964
These sharemen were and are sometimes chargeable with a part of certain items . . . [as] when a Labradorman's voyage of fish has to be "made," i.e. sun dried by the planters and/or neighbours with flake-room and time to spare, a prior pre-quintal charge is reserved from the entire voyage's value to pay for this labour called "fish-making". . . .