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Juvenile predator gets choice fish circling river
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pickerel
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Word definitions for pickerel in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sauger \Sau"ger\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American fresh-water food fish ( Stizostedion Canadense ); -- called also gray pike , blue pike , hornfish , land pike , sand pike , pickering , and pickerel .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young pike," late 13c., diminutive of pike , the fish (see pike (n.3)), with French pejorative suffix -rel ; perhaps formed in Anglo-French.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. flesh of young or small pike any of several North American species of small pike
Usage examples of pickerel.
He passed over the Royal River, where they had fished for steelies and pickerel as boys.