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Kipper   Listen
noun
Kipper  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A salmon after spawning.
2.
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. (Scot.)
Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. (Eng. & Scot.)





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"Kipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... manufacturing community, there were other conditions as markedly different. Theatres, shops, and even churches varied as to their method of conduct, and, in some measure, of their functions as well. It was but natural that the demand of the Ratcliffe Highway for the succulent "kipper" should conduce to a vastly different method of purveying the edible necessities of life from that of the West End poulterer who sold only Surrey fowl, or, curiously enough, as he really does, Scotch salmon. So, too, with the theatres and music-halls; the lower ...
— Dickens' London • Francis Miltoun
... possible to catch an occasional glimpse of romance and courageous living, and in the volume which lies before us as we write we are given a generous measure of peril and adventure in faery seas forlorn. From Whitebait to Kipper: The Story of Seven Lives, is the vivid record of a family of herrings, set down (posthumously, it would seem) with refreshing simplicity by Walter Herring, the youngest and perhaps the most brilliant of the family. The story begins with the early childhood of Walter, John, Isabel, Margaret, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 15, 1920 • Various


Words linked to "Kipper" :   herring


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