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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fresh herring in which the roe or milt is perfectly but not largely developed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), Eng. & Scot. A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

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