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n. Any of several small North American freshwater game and food fishes of the genus Esox, especially E. reticulatus, of the eastern and southern United States.

n. Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel.

n. Chiefly British A young pike.

n. A freshwater fish of the genus Esox.

n. A young or small pike.

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n. Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

n. The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

n. 1. A small or young pike, Esox lucius.

n. A kind of pike: so called in the United States.

n. A pike-perch or sauger: a commercial name of the dressed fish. See Stizostedion.

n. A small wading bird, as a stint, a purre, or a dunlin.

n. flesh of young or small pike

n. any of several North American species of small pike

"Then another fellow caught a toothy chain pickerel, his first, went to do the famous bassmaster pickup by the mouth, screamed as the pickerel took and cut up his thumb as he picked it up out of the water."

pike   

varied pickerel    pond-pickerel    gray pickerel    little pickerel    marsh-pickerel    brook-pickerel    trout-pickerel    yellow pickerel    pike   

wall-eye   

bluefish    dace    shad    crappie    grouper    catfish    mackerel    turbot    mullet    pike