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pilchard

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Noun
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pil=chard

CIDE DICTIONARY

pilchardn. [Cf. It. pilseir, W. pilcod minnows.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pilchard, n. a small marine fish, Sardinia pilchardus of the herring family (see SARDINE).

Etymology
16th-c. pilcher etc.: orig. unkn.

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