Crossword clues for herring
herring
- False clue
- Whitebait, e.g.
- Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific
- Usually salted or pickled
- Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
- Abundant food fish
- Shad or sardine
- Slipping on hard fish
- Husband, not sinless but something of a catch?
- Husband straying? He might catch this!
- Husband going astray? Something fishy here
- Important food fish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herring \Her"ring\ (h[e^]r"r[i^]ng), n. [OE. hering, AS. h[ae]ring; akin to D. haring, G. h["a]ring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. Harry.] (Zo["o]l.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring ( Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities. Herring gull (Zo["o]l.), a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and Larus cachinnans in England. See Gull. Herring hog (Zo["o]l.), the common porpoise. King of the herrings. (Zo["o]l.)
The chim[ae]ra ( Chimaera monstrosa) which follows the schools of herring. Called also rabbit fish in the U. K. See Chim[ae]ra.
The opah.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hering (Anglian), hæring (West Saxon), from West Germanic *heringgaz (cognates: Old Frisian hereng, Middle Dutch herinc, German Hering), of unknown origin, perhaps related to or influenced in form by Old English har "gray, hoar," from the color, or to Old High German heri "host, multitude" from its large schools.\n
\nFrench hareng, Italian aringa are from Germanic. The Battle of the Herrings (French bataille des harengs) is the popular name for the battle at Rouvrai, Feb. 12, 1492, fought in defense of a convoy of provisions, mostly herrings and other "lenten stuffe."
Wiktionary
n. A type of small, oily fish of the genus ''Clupea'', often used as food.
WordNet
n. valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific [syn: Clupea harangus]
Wikipedia
A herring is a type of fish. It may also refer to: __NOTOC__
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae.
Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast. The most abundant and commercially important species belong to the genus Clupea, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America. Three species of Clupea are recognised, and provide about 90% of all herrings captured in fisheries. Most abundant of all is the Atlantic herring, providing over half of all herring capture. Fishes called herring are also found in India, in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.
Herring played a pivotal role in the history of marine fisheries in Europe, and early in the twentieth century their study was fundamental to the evolution of fisheries science. These oily fish also have a long history as an important food fish, and are often salted, smoked, or pickled.
Herring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aggie Herring (1876–1939), U.S. actress
- Alfred Cecil Herring (1888–1966), Royal Army Service Corps officer
- Annie Herring, U.S. Christian singer
- Art Herring (1906–1995), U.S. baseball player
- Aubrey Herring, U.S. track and field athlete
- Augustus Moore Herring (1865–1926), U.S. aviation pioneer
- Ben Herring (born 1980), New Zealand rugby union footballer
- Caroline Herring, singer-songwriter
- Daren Herring (born 1966), Welsh National F2 Rally Champion 1993, songwriter, producer
- Bill Herring, U.S. baseball player
- Charles R. Herring (born 1945), chiropractor who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 to 1992
- Clyde L. Herring (1879–1945), U.S. politician
- Conyers Herring (born 1914), U.S. physicist
- Corey Herring, U.S. basketball player
- Cornelius T. Herring (1849-1931), American rancher, banker and hotelier.
- Dennis Herring, U.S. record producer
- E. Pendleton Herring (1903–2004), U.S. political scientist
- Edmund Herring (1892–1982), Australian Army officer
- Eli Herring, U.S. football player
- Hal Herring (born 1924), U.S. football player and coach
- Hank Herring (1922–1999), U.S. boxer
- Heath Herring (born 1978), U.S. mixed martial artist
- Horace Herring (1884–1962), New Zealand politician
- James Red Herring (1896–1974), U.S. boxer
- James V. Herring (1887–1969), U.S. artist
- Jim Herring (born 1938), American politician
- Jimmy Herring (born 1962), U.S. rock guitarist
- Joanne Herring (born 1929), U.S. entrepreneur, philanthropist, and talk show host
- John Frederick Herring, Sr. (1795–1865), British painter
- John Frederick Herring, Jr. (1820–1907), British painter
- Kim Herring (born 1975), U.S. football player
- Louise McCarren Herring (1909–1987), U.S. cooperative activist
- Lynn Herring (born 1958), U.S. soap opera actress
- Mark Herring (born 1961), U.S. politician
- Mary Herring (1895–1981), Australian physician and community worker
- Pembroke J. Herring (born 1930), American film editor
- Percy Theodore Herring (1872–1967) New Zealand physician
- Reggie Herring (born 1959), U.S. football coach
- Richard Herring (born 1967), British comedian
- Robert Herring (poet), Scottish poet
- Robert Herring (businessman), U.S. entrepreneur
- Rufus G. Herring (1921–1996), United States Naval Reserve officer
- Sydney Herring (1881–1951), Australian Army colonel
- Thomas Herring (1693–1757), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Vincent Herring (born 1964), U.S. jazz saxophonist
- Will Herring (born 1983), U.S. football player
Fictional characters:
- Albert Herring, from the 1947 comic chamber opera by Benjamin Britten
- A henchman of Dictator Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator
Usage examples of "herring".
The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.
While the Admiral of the Fleet munched away on a blini, and the Deputy Secretary bit into a tongue sandwich, Igor went to work on a helping of herring.
As soon as he was seated, a waiter brought several trays of zakuski, Russian appetizers: pickled beef tongue with horseradish sauce, red and black caviar and blini, mushrooms in aspic, pickled vegetables, herring.
Dilly sitting by the ingle, her hair hanging down, waiting for some weak Trinidad shell cocoa that was in the sootcoated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the Friday herrings they had eaten at two a penny with an egg apiece for Maggy, Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper, in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or if not, ember days or something like that.
Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of Hampshire, chitterlings of Taunton, and botargos of Cadiz, such as Pantagruel himself might have devoured.
Whales could not be introduced until, in the case of the baleen whales, the krill population had reached productive levels, until small fish such as herring, sardines, and capelin were plentiful.
Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects.
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 other two spaces are filled by brick stitch, and darning with little veins of coral stitch and herring bone.
He opens it and shows it full of polonies, kippered herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.
A split moment of delay bared him to a downward slice that opened his gambeson like a fishwife gutting a herring and streaked a stinging cut along the line of his ribs.
Madeira, where Gow presented the Governor with a box of Scotch herrings.
Set on stones were elven winter rations and fresh game: oat cakes with salt and maple syrup, dried herring, hunks of deer and bear and bison, even barrels of ale and a trough of spring water.
Porridge and potatoes, and muslin kail, with a salt herring now and then.
They enjoyed the exotic aromas that spilled forth from the delicatessens, the appetizer shops with their tempting displays of lox, carp, sturgeon, pickled herring, and the myriad foods foreign to Magnolia, Georgia though to some extent available in the more cosmopolitan Atlanta.