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.

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.

noun. 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. a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and Larus cachinnans in England. See Gull.

noun. the common porpoise.

noun. The opah.

noun. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.

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

"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."

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