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kipper

 : 
Noun, Verb (transitive)
 : 
kip=per

CIDE DICTIONARY

kippern. [D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. Kipe.].
  •  A salmon after spawning.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.  [1913 Webster]
Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]
kipperv. t. 
     To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.  Dickens.  [1913 Webster]
kippera. 
     Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kipper, n. & v.
--n.
1 a kippered fish, esp. herring.
2 a male salmon in the spawning season.
--v.tr. cure (a herring etc.) by splitting open, salting, and drying in the open air or smoke.

Etymology
ME: orig. uncert.

THESAURUS

kipper

Loch Ness monster, alevin, anguille, anhydrate, benthon, benthos, blast-freeze, brine, caviar, cetacean, corn, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dolphin, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eel, embalm, evaporate, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, freeze, freeze-dry, fry, fume, game fish, grilse, irradiate, jerk, kippered salmon, man-eater, man-eating shark, marinade, marinate, marine animal, minnow, minny, mummify, nekton, panfish, pickle, plankton, poisson, porpoise, preservatize, quick-freeze, red herring, refrigerate, roe, salmon, salt, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seafood, season, shark, smoke, smoke-cure, smoked herring, smolt, sponge, stuff, tropical fish, whale

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