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/pˈɪkərəl/ Listen

Pickerel

noun

(Written also pickerell)

Flesh of young or small pike.

Any of several North American species of small pike.

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"Pickerel" Quotes from Famous Books

... bait would scarcely touch the water when the little orange colored fellows would rush for it. Now and then a black bass darted wickedly through the school of sunfish and stole the morsel from them. Or a sharp-nosed fiery-eyed pickerel—vulture of the water—rising to the surface, and, supreme in his indifference to man or fish, would swim lazily round until he had discovered the cause of all this commotion among the smaller fishes, ...

— Betty Zane • Zane Grey

... doubled; and some of the pickerel they pulled in reminded Dabney of small blue-fish, while the bass and perch were every way as respectable as ordinary porgies and black-fish, except for size. He had even to confess that the sea itself contained a great many small ...

— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard

Words linked to "Pickerel" : chain pike, pike, Esox americanus, pickerel weed, Esox niger