PICKEREL

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A young or small pike. [Obs.] Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. Chaucer.

2.
n.

Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

3.
n.

The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.


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