Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several North American freshwater game fishes of the genus Esox, especially the chain pickerel.
- noun The walleye.
- noun Chiefly British A young pike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 1. A small or young pike, Esox lucius.
- noun A kind of pike: so called in the United States.
- noun A pike-perch or sauger: a commercial name of the dressed fish. See
Stizostedion . - noun A small wading bird, as a stint, a purre, or a dunlin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A young or small pike.
- noun Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
- noun The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See
Wall-eye . - noun (Bot.) a blue-flowered aquatic plant (
Pontederia cordata ) having large arrow-shaped leaves. So called because common in slow-moving waters where pickerel are often found.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A freshwater
fish of the genusEsox .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flesh of young or small pike
- noun any of several North American species of small pike
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then another fellow caught a toothy chain pickerel, his first, went to do the famous bassmaster pickup by the mouth, screamed as the pickerel took and cut up his thumb as he picked it up out of the water.
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Yes | No | Report from tourneyking734 wrote 31 weeks 6 days ago when fishing in pickerel grass i put on a 7 (i think that's the lenght) weightless slug-go.
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Large, shallower ponds and lakes favor species such as chain pickerel, northern pike, yellow perch and sunfish.
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I have a few chain pickerel on a fly, record perch on a fly, golden trout, and the extinct silver trout.
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Yes | No | Report from tourneyking734 wrote 31 weeks 6 days ago when fishing in pickerel grass i put on a 7 (i think that's the lenght) weightless slug-go.
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Large, shallower ponds and lakes favor species such as chain pickerel, northern pike, yellow perch and sunfish.
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Then another fellow caught a toothy chain pickerel, his first, went to do the famous bassmaster pickup by the mouth, screamed as the pickerel took and cut up his thumb as he picked it up out of the water.
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I have a few chain pickerel on a fly, record perch on a fly, golden trout, and the extinct silver trout.
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The common denominator, wherever you find pickerel, is shallow, weedy water.
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Chain pickerel have a deep green back blending to lighter green-and-gold sides that are covered by darker, graphic lines resembling the links of a chain, a pattern almost never shown by their larger pike and muskie cousins.
chained_bear commented on the word pickerel
"Clarence Birdseye... had moved to Labrador with his wife, Eleanor, and their infant son to work as a fur trapper. He found that if he froze greens, they would last through the winter without losing their flavor. He filled his baby's washbasin with salted water, put cabbage in it, and exposed it to Labrador's arctic wind. The Birdseyes were the first people to eat 'fresh' vegetables all winter. This was the beginning of years of home kitchen experiments. ... their son recalled Eleanor's regular irritation at finding food experiments throughout the house. He particularly remembered the fight over live pickerel in the bathtub."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 134
July 16, 2009
bilby commented on the word pickerel
Fish or bird or plant. Now that's multiskilling.
August 27, 2021