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- verb Present participle of
kipper .
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Examples
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In several parts of the county salmon are cured in a peculiar manner, called kippering; and throughout Scotland kippered salmon is a favourite dish.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 Various
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But Mrs Lucas often spent some of her rare leisure moments in the smoking-parlour, playing on the virginal that stood in the window, or kippering herself in the fumes of the wood-fire as with streaming eyes she deciphered an Elzevir
Queen Lucia 1903
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These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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While M&S stands by its traditional smoked herrings, Sainsburys - while glorifying that item in their Taste the Difference range - have simultaneously instituted a fishy revolution by kippering sardines.
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