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pickerel

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pick·er·el  (pkr-l, pkrl)
n. pl. pickerel or pick·er·els
1. Any of several small North American freshwater game and food fishes of the genus Esox, especially E. reticulatus, of the eastern and southern United States.
2. Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel.
3. Chiefly British A young pike.
[Middle English pikerel, diminutive of pike, pike; see pike2.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pickerelpickerel - flesh of young or small pike
pike - highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
2.pickerel - any of several North American species of small pike
pike - any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
chain pickerel, chain pike, Esox niger - common in quiet waters of eastern United States
barred pickerel, Esox americanus, redfin pickerel - small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states


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I have seen at one time lying on the ice pickerel of at least three different kinds: a long and shallow one, steel-colored, most like those caught in the river; a bright golden kind, with greenish reflections and remarkably deep, which is the most common here; and another, golden-colored, and shaped like the last, but peppered on the sides with small dark brown or black spots, intermixed with a few faint blood-red ones, very much like a trout.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
“I don’t know, Benjamin,” returned the sheriff; “a haul of one thousand Otsego bass, without counting pike, pickerel, perch, bull- pouts, salmon-trouts, and suckers, is no bad fishing, let me tell you.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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