A pickled herring. Now rare.

With qualifications, expressing the condition of the fish, or the way in which it is cured.

With qualifications, expressing the condition of the fish, or the way in which it is cured.

With qualifications, expressing the condition of the fish, or the way in which it is cured.

With qualifications, expressing the condition of the fish, or the way in which it is cured.

a herring preserved in vinegar or brine; also figurative (= pickle-herring, n. 2).

Scottish and Canadian. Fish, esp. codfish, which is preserved by being salted and then packed in brine.

A long slender gadoid fish, Molva vulgaris or Lota molva, inhabiting the seas of northern Europe. It is largely used for food (usually either…

a herring cured at sea.

Salt cod, salt fish as distinguished from dry or stock-fish. (Cf. corved, adj.)

herrings caught after the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross (September 14).

A type of cured fish, or a condiment made of this (see quots. 1728 and 1883). Obsolete.

New England. Cod or similar fish cured by being lightly salted and, over a period of several months, alternately dried in the air and left piled in…

Similative uses. (See quot. 1798) Obsolete.

Mackerel pickled in a certain way; so called in the West Indies.

English regional (Cornwall). A pilchard preserved by curing. Cf. fumade, n.

= dunfish, n. 1.

Cod-fish salted and hardened by pressure.

With qualifications, expressing the condition of the fish, or the way in which it is cured.

Chiefly in plural. A fillet of pickled herring, typically wrapped around a pickled piece of gherkin, cucumber, or onion.

(chiefly in Jewish cookery) pickled, fatty herring.

(a) South African = bamboo-fish n. at bamboo, n. compounds 2; (b) Ghana = stinking fish n. at stinking, adj. compounds 1 (b).

(a) in allusion to the phr. to cry stinking fish at cry, v. 5b(b): something worthless or rotten; (b) Ghana (see quot. 1973).

(a) a bloater; (b) a kipper.