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Herring — Her ring (h[e^]r r[i^]ng), n. [OE. hering, AS. h[ae]ring; akin to D. haring, G. h[ a]ring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. {Harry}.] (Zo[ o]l.) One of various … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Herring gull — Herring Her ring (h[e^]r r[i^]ng), n. [OE. hering, AS. h[ae]ring; akin to D. haring, G. h[ a]ring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. {Harry}.] (Zo[ o]l.) One of … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Herring hog — Herring Her ring (h[e^]r r[i^]ng), n. [OE. hering, AS. h[ae]ring; akin to D. haring, G. h[ a]ring, hering, OHG. haring, hering, and prob. to AS. here army, and so called because they commonly move in large numbers. Cf. {Harry}.] (Zo[ o]l.) One of … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
herring — ► NOUN ▪ a silvery fish which is most abundant in coastal waters and is an important food fish. ORIGIN Old English … English terms dictionary
Herring — Taxobox name = Herring fossil range = fossilrange|55|0 Early Eocene to Present [cite journal last = Sepkoski first = Jack authorlink = coauthors = title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology… … Wikipedia
Herring Buss — A Herring Buss (Dutch: Haring Buis ) was a type of sea going fishing vessel, used by Dutch herring fishermen in the 15th through early 19th centuries.ConstructionThe ship type Buss has a long history. It was already known around the time of the… … Wikipedia
herring — /ˈhɛrɪŋ / (say hering) noun (plural herring or herrings) 1. any of a number of marine and freshwater fishes belonging to various families as the oxeye herring, freshwater herring, tommy ruff. 2. any fish of the marine family Clupeidae, including… …
herring — noun (plural herring or herrings) Etymology: Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring; akin to Old High German hārinc herring Date: before 12th century 1. either of two food fishes (genus Clupeus): a. one (C. harengus) that is abundant in… … New Collegiate Dictionary
herring — Atlantic and Pacific herring, Clupea harengus and C. pallasii (Clupeidae), the former in particular figuring prominently in fisheries in North America and Europe and having various terms peculiar to its fishery. Many of these terms are in… … Dictionary of ichthyology
herring — [OE] Just as the hare is probably the ‘grey animal’, so the herring could well be the ‘grey fish’. Old English hǣring goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *khēringgaz, in which the first syllable could represent the ancestor of English hoar… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
