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UK
/pˈɪltʃəd/
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NOUN
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
How To Use pilchard In A Sentence
- The pilchards are now familiarly called "fair maids," from _fermade_, a corruption of _fumado_ (the Spanish word for _smoked_), as originally they were cured by smoking, a method, however, which has long been abandoned. Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
- When you buy sardines from France, Portugal or Spain, you're really getting pilchards, a smaller and fatter variety of herring.
- Oily fish such as herring, kippers, mackerel, pilchards, salmon, sardines and trout, contain oils that can lessen the risk of thrombosis.
- He pointed out that 100 tonnes of diesel is now being released in a relatively shallow area which is also a major spawning area for pilchards.
- And the Penguin chews the scenery as if coated in pilchard paste and quacks "Penguins mate for life" into Catwoman's ear. Batman – Live - review
- Isa made arrangements for daily supplies of fish, crab, lobsters, mackerel, pilchard when they could get them. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- The fish stalls sell pilchards, mackerel and squid, which are the best baits for general ledger fishing, taking most species including conger and moray eels.
- It is only found in the muscles of amphibians and many fish species such as hake, yellowtail and pilchard.
- The officials claimed that the seals prefer pilchard, small hake and horse mackerel.
- For no sooner was Billy let out of the stocks than off he went to Lawyer Mennear, who was a young man then just set up in practice, and as keen for a job as a huer for pilchards; and between them they patched up an action for false imprisonment -- damages claimed, one hundred pounds. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts