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Capon is slang for a young homosexual man.Capon is slang for a false trail, a false clue, a red herring.Capon is slang for a bloater.Capon was old slang for a eunuch.
Herring (shortened from herring and kipper is London Cockney rhyming slang for stripper.
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to sprinkle salt on a deck load fo fresh herring, also, to rouse them
A class of ship used by the Canadian navy in WWI. It is actually a type of fishing boat designed to catch herring in a long drift net, long used in the Netherlands and Great Britain.
Glasgow magistrate is Scottish slang for a herring.
Herring and kipper is London Cockney rhyming slang for stripper.
to cry warning on the coast when the herring strike in
Herring bone is London Cockney rhyming slang for telephone.
Refers in an insulting manner to a 'first year' at school. Probably comes from squashing together "fresh herring" originally but nobody seems to know for sure. This might be specific to King Edward's School, Birmingham UK as I've never heard of it used elsewhere. A good word though I think. (ed: indeed it is... got any more?)
a weighted circular open net thrown by hand among schooling caplin or herring and dragged ashore or to a boat as the net is closed on the catch
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The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
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Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
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A young or small herring.
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A young herring.
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One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. 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.
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A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
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A young herring (Clupea harengus).
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An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.
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A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
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The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
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A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
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Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
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Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
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Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
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A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
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A young herring.
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A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.
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The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
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Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
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Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
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