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Definition of Pickerels
1. pickerel [n] - See also: pickerel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickerels
Literary usage of Pickerels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Pike by Onnie Warren Smith (1922)
"CHAPTER IV The Little pickerels "The apostles, though they were fishers, too,
... In the preceding chapter I described the three pickerels of the United ..."
2. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"The family of pickerels is perhaps the least understood of any in the whole class.
From the characters assigned to it by Cuvier, it contains a variety of ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"One author, comparing them to ships, says, " The pikes are the taller ships, the
pickerels of a middle sort, nnd the Jacks the ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"One author, comparing them to ships, says, " The pikes are the taller ships, the
pickerels of a middle sort, and the Jacks the pinnaces." Cens. Lit., x, p. ..."
5. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... fins placed far back; pectorals close together; caudal forked; air-bladder
simple. There is a single genus. Genus ESOX Linnaeus. Pikes, pickerels, and ..."
6. Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, from the Original by Durham Cathedral, Joseph Thomas Fowler (1901)
"pickerels, 35, 602, 604*. Pickering, Nich., 691. Picton, Rob. de, 264. Piece,
silver, 403 ; with cover and money, 630. Pier near fulling mill, 630. ..."
7. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"The little western pickerel (Esox vermiculatus) has both cheeks and gill-covers
entirely scaly, as have all the pickerels; it has from 11 to 13, usually 12, ..."
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