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n. A small marine food fish (Clupea sprattus) of northeast Atlantic waters that is eaten fresh or smoked and is often canned in oil as a sardine. Also called brisling.

n. Any of various other similar fishes, such as a young herring.

n. Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae.

n. A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

n. A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.

n. A name of various species of rushes, as Juncus articulatus, etc.

n. plural Small wood.

n. A small clupeoid fish of European waters, Clupea (Harengula) sprattus.

n. A name of other fishes

To fish for sprats.

n. A small coin.

n. Same as thread-herring.

n. small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines

n. small herring processed like a sardine

"That most extensively employed in this country is the sprat, which is occasionally caught in enormous quantities on the Norfolk coast, and used as an application for turnips."

herring    sardine   

fresh-water sprat    london sprat    yellow-billed sprat    sardine    pilchard    a sprat to catch a mackerel   

garvie    alfione    perch   

beefcake    lant    haddie    overblouse    pepperoni    gherkin    jabbar    truffle    miasmata    vapouring