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Definition of Chain pickerel
1. Noun. Common in quiet waters of eastern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chain Pickerel
Literary usage of Chain pickerel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Freshwater Aquarium and Its Inhabitants: Guide for the Amateur Aquarist by Otto Eggeling, Frederick Ehrenberg (1912)
"This pickerel occurs in ditches and streams from New York to Florida. The Green
Pike, chain pickerel, Common Eastern Pickerel (Esox ..."
2. Adventure Guide to the Champlain & Hudson River Valleys by Patricia Foulke, Robert Foulke (2003)
"Fishing The Delaware has small bass, chain pickerel and walleyes. Greenwood Lake
offers large bass, small bass, chain pickerel, panfish and tiger musky. ..."
3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey by North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905) (1907)
"The chain pickerel is a voracious feeder, consuming minnows and other small ...
chain pickerel; PIKE. Esox reticulatus. Considerable quantities of this fish ..."
4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"Its peculiar markings have given it the name of "chain pickerel," and patriotic
Americans of early Federal days called it the " Federation Pike," an ..."