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Definition of Pilchard
1. Noun. Small fatty fish usually canned.
2. Noun. Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring.
Generic synonyms: Clupeid, Clupeid Fish
Group relationships: Genus Sardina, Genus Sardinia, Sardina
Specialized synonyms: Pacific Sardine, Sardinops Caerulea
Definition of Pilchard
1. n. A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.
Definition of Pilchard
1. Noun. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family ''Clupeidae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilchard
1. a small marine fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pilchard
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilchard
Literary usage of Pilchard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1877)
"From time immemorial the pilchard fisheries have been divided into two distinct
... The pilchard drift fishery is prosecuted by nearly all towns on tho ..."
2. A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures, and the Contracts by Joseph Chitty (1824)
".rf endeavoured to arrange the law respecting the ^ale, and Newfoundland fisheries,
we will proceed to . the regulations affecting the pilchard, salmon, ..."
3. The Commercial Products of the Sea: Or, Marine Contributions to Food by Peter Lund Simmonds (1879)
"THE pilchard FISHERY. The pilchard fishery of Cornwall and ... In July the early
pilchard fishing commences, and from that time to the beginning of ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1883)
"Importance of the pilchard—Catching pilchards by the seine net— Earnings of the
... THE pilchard is an important member of the herring family, ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1877)
"From, time immemorial the pilchard fisheries have been divided into two distinct
... The pilchard drift fishery is prosecuted by nearly all towns on the ..."
6. Fishing Holidays by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1904)
"IV WITH THE pilchard FLEET LOOK, during half the year, lives by pilchard, thrives
by pilchard, speaks of pilchard, reeks of pilchard, thinks of pilchard, ..."
7. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"The chief pilchard fisheries are along the coasts of Dalmatia, ... The Cornish
men observe of the pilchard, that it is the least fish in size, ..."
8. Fish and Fisheries: A Selection from the Prize Essays of the International by David Herbert (1883)
"THE pilchard in England chiefly abounds along the coasts of Cornwall and Devou;
and it is only in these two counties that any regular pilchard fishery is ..."
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