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Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe
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pilchard
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A pilchard , or sardine, is a small, oily fish related to the herring, family Clupeidae Pilchard may also refer to: European pilchard , Sardina pilchardus , true sardine South American pilchard , Sardinops sagax , Pacific sardine, California sardine, Chilean ...
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Pilchard \Pil"chard\, n. [Cf. It. pilseir, W. pilcod minnows.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. Fools are as like ...
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n. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
Usage examples of pilchard.
Antarctic deep-ocean water carries nutrients which feed economically important fisheries in many parts of the world - Argentine hake, Brazilian tuna, South African pilchard and the remnants of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery.
The flat concrete benches were ashine with bream and gilthead, pilchards, sardines and mackerel.
Other boats were out, mostly taking pilchards and mullet, but the fishermen had no eyes for anything but their work.
When it was autumn and the winter wind began to blow, the pilchards came in their thousands and swam through the musical box.
We'd had a fair haul of pilchard, stockfish and maasbanker, but not what I was hoping for when we met that elusive marriage-point of plankton and tropic waters.
The pilchard fishermen and lobster-pot men with whom he had been having furtive dealings and on whom he had been lavishing British gold - French gold, to be exact - would meet with short shrift if their activities became known to the French authorities.
Several years later I learned that MI6 was lacking in officers with sufficient technical expertise to understand the increasingly scientific nature of its work and Pilchard, like the other university talent-spotters, had been briefed to look out for science graduates - which was probably another reason he approached me.