Bloater

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted.
  • n. A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A salted, and lightly smoked herring or mackerel.
  • n. A freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes; the species Coregonus hoyi.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An English name for a herring which has been steeped for a short time, slightly salted, and partially smoke-dried, but not split open.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
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