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HERRING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
Synonyms:
Clupea harangus; herring
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("herring" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
clupeid; clupeid fish (any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas)
Meronyms (parts of "herring"):
herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "herring"):
Atlantic herring; Clupea harengus harengus (important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic)
Clupea harengus pallasii; Pacific herring (important food fish of the northern Pacific)
Holonyms ("herring" is a member of...):
Clupea; genus Clupea (type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("herring" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "herring"):
kipper; kippered herring (salted and smoked herring)
bloater (large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked)
pickled herring (herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar))
red herring; smoked herring (a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color)
brisling; sprat (small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines)
whitebait (minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole)
Holonyms ("herring" is a part of...):
Clupea harangus; herring (commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific)
Context examples:
“Your tongue goes like the clapper of a mill-wheel. Sit down here, friend, and partake of this herring. Understand first, however, that there are certain conditions attached to it.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I have some small stock of learning,” Alleyne answered, picking at his herring, “but I have been at neither of these places. I was bred amongst the Cistercian monks at Beaulieu Abbey.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We are like to have salt water upon us until we be found pickled like the herrings in an Easterling's barrels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is Sam Aylward of the Company; and here is your captain, Sir Nigel Loring, and four others, all laid out to be grilled like an Easterling's herrings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he approached he saw that they had five dried herrings laid out in front of them, with a great hunch of wheaten bread and a leathern flask full of milk, but instead of setting to at their food they appeared to have forgot all about it, and were disputing together with flushed faces and angry gestures.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The peasant's gossip had been of the hunt, of the bracken, of the gray-headed kites that had nested in Wood Fidley, and of the great catch of herring brought back by the boats of Pitt's Deep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For, hark ye: granting, propter argumentum, that I am a talker, then the true reasoning runs that since all men of sense should avoid me, and thou hast not avoided me, but art at the present moment eating herrings with me under a holly-bush, ergo you are no man of sense, which is exactly what I have been dinning into your long ears ever since I first clapped eyes on your sunken chops.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
