What is "shads"

Usage examples of "shads".

There were two caravans and a flat, covered cart, half a dozen shads and two calves, and a few goats tethered at the back of the vehicles.

A pair of young bull shads, freshly butchered, fifteen brace of pigeon, and five of wild boar.

How he would put out her ruby-red eyes to kill their fascination, singe her eyebrows, her long lashes, and the hair of her head to make her a hag, then fuck her every opening into great holes fit only for shads in the rut.

Sunside honey, coarse bread, fresh milk from his udderlings (some of which were once women, others which were still shads, but all of them grown huge through various metamor-phic processes), and just a morsel of meat, sweet rabbit from Suckscar's farm.

But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shads, alewives and herring, against Linnæus's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.