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Pilchard in oil
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sardine
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or (vern: European sardine) ((taxlink Clupea pichardus species noshow=1)). The California sardine ((taxlink Clupea sagax ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin sardina , from Greek sardine, sardinos , often said to be from Sardo "Sardinia" (see Sardinia ), the Mediterranean island, near which the fish probably were caught and from which they were exported. But Klein writes, "It is hardly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sardine \Sar"dine\ (? or ?; 277), n. See Sardius .
Usage examples of sardine.
Special: Norwegian brisling sardines in Italian olive oil heaped on German schwarzbrot, with a layer of thinly sliced Spanish onion and a dollop of French dressing.
Camembert cheese heated slightly, just enough to spread, a Boston rarebit made with cream and egg left over scrambled eggs and cress, roast chicken and chopped dill pickles, cheese and chopped dates or figs, orange marmalade, and sardines pounded to a paste with a few drops of lemon juice added.
Sardines have lots of a nutrient called prostaglandin, which makes them effective against all kinds of diseases.
Out on the highway, truckers with their headlights on roared past, heading north with their tankers of oil, their loads of lumber, their freezer trucks full of sides of beef, or south with pulpwood, lobsters, or cans of sardines.
That was much more fun than this, he decided, not for the first time, as he sorted through the fish, pitching the sardines into a broad, shallow indentation in the rock that served, at low tide, as a holding-pool.
Dervish Ansar hacked their way on board and the passengers were driven like sardines before a barracuda to the far rail of the ungainly craft.
The flat concrete benches were ashine with bream and gilthead, pilchards, sardines and mackerel.
At one place he achieved two cups of shameless chickory, at another three sardines, at a third a dessert of elderly bananas.
The top estheticians and skin care experts in the world will tell you that the omega-3 fat in sardines and salmon is essential for young and healthy skin.
It was more for something to do than because I wanted fish for my dinner that when I saw a squadron of small kingfish charging a big shoal of sardine ahead of us, I gave the wheel to Jimmy.
Special: Norwegian brisling sardines in Italian olive oil heaped on German schwarzbrot, with a layer of thinly sliced Spanish onion and a dollop of French dressing.
On his way up to Logan, he played Follow, and a woman in a Honda Civic smashed head-on into a pickup truck as she foolishly tried to pass a semitruck at the crest of a hill in Sardine Canyon.
When the dressmakers were done, Tsybukin paid them not in cash but in goods from his shop, and they went away from him sadly, carrying bundles of stearine candles and sardines, which they did not need at all, and when they got out of the village into the fields, they sat down on a knoll and began to cry.
Even for a major teardown his ground crews would be sardined into the ship they would be tearing down and taken to a completely deserted beach world.
THE STAGE OF THE CORVIN CINEMA, AMID A CLUTTER Of orange peels and empty sardine tins and broken ammunition crates and discarded clothing and heaps of mimeographed tracts and assorted weaponry, the players in the drama waited for the curtain to rise on the third act.