- Drains off European fish - Food fish - Send Ira off to get little one from school - Small sea fish - Young pilchard - 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. - See Sardius.