- Salted and smoked herring - Smoked herring - A salmon after spawning. - A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so
called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being
good when fresh. - To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. - Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay;
sprightly.
- Fish type - Fish, often pickled - Food fish of the northern seas - Small sea fish - 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.