Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various silvery fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially the commercially important Clupea harengus of the northern Atlantic Ocean and C. pallasii of the northern Pacific Ocean.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To manure with herring or other fish.
- noun In Australia, Prototroctes maræna, the Yarra herring, fresh-water herring, grayling, or cucumber-mullet, found in the rivers of Victoria and Tasmania.
- noun The ten-pounder, Elops saurus, found in all tropical waters.
- noun A clupeoid fish, Clupea harengus, of great economic importance and commercial value.
- noun A herring which has been gutted and dried for keeping.
- noun A pickled herring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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. - noun (Zoöl.) a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp.,
Larus argentatus in America, andLarus cachinnans in England. SeeGull . - noun (Zoöl.) the common porpoise.
- noun (Zoöl.) The opah.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
- noun valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In April & May come up another kind of fish which they call herring, or old wives, in infinite schools into a small river running under the town, and so into a great pond or lake of a mile broad where they cast their spawn, the water of the said river being in many places not above half a foot deep.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2007
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Well, some Folks say that herring do not live in the Mediterranean Sea, that ancient Folks knew nothing about them, but that what we know as herring are really sardines.
Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever
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The real red herring is of course that individuals expressing themselves democratically against the wishes of such as Rubin et al constitute a threat to "free markets", which do not exist as such anyway.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I suppose your point about it being a red herring is correct in this case if gross negligence as opposed to ordinary negligence can be proven.
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If a herring is dragged across a trail that hounds are following, it throws them off the scent. mo-wo Said,
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Imported pickled herring is a popular item in the upscale supermarkets, and a salad of herring with a variety of legumes, including garbanzos and fava beans, is a specialty of the northern state of Coahuila.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Imported pickled herring is a popular item in the upscale supermarkets, and a salad of herring with a variety of legumes, including garbanzos and fava beans, is a specialty of the northern state of Coahuila.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Imported pickled herring is a popular item in the upscale supermarkets, and a salad of herring with a variety of legumes, including garbanzos and fava beans, is a specialty of the northern state of Coahuila.
Culinary guide to Mexican fish and shellfish: Las delicias del mar I 2006
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Nine times out of 10 when he finds gannets, pelicans, or terns diving on bay anchovies, pogies, or threadfin herring, he also finds a school of redfish feasting on the same bait.
Flyfishing for Redfish on the Flats from Texas to Florida 2005
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Red Herrings: A red herring is defined as something that draws attention away from the central issue.
chained_bear commented on the word herring
"Herring was so plentiful that the Abbey of St Edmond received a rent of 30,000 fish a year from the port of Beccles."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 69
January 8, 2017