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pilchard

[ UK /pˈɪlt‍ʃəd/ ]
NOUN
  1. small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
  2. 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
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