chain pickerel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chain pickerel
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Case in point: In the first and best essay in this collection, he vividly introduces the latest thing-you-didn’t-know-you-cared-about: the chain pickerel, a fish with a “culinary quality … in inverse proportion to its size.”
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018
One meal a month of chain pickerel and warmouth.
From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2018
South Fork Edisto River - No eating mudfish, chain pickerel, flathead catfish or largemouth bass.
From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2018
Edisto River to Willtown Bluff - No eating mudfish, largemouth bass, chain pickerel, channel catfish or flathead catfish.
From Washington Times • Apr. 11, 2018
He is a big green fish, a golden lustre on his reticulated sides and in colonial times he was known as chain pickerel from this dark linking on his golden green surface.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
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