kipper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.
2. n. A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
3. v. To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Hooked or beaked, as a spent salmon. See the quotation.
2. n. The male salmon when spent after the spawning season.
3. n. A salmon detained in fresh water.
4. n. A kippered herring; a herring for kippering.
5. To prepare or cure, as salmon, herring, etc., by cleansing them well, giving them several dry rubbings of pepper and salt, and then drying them, either in the open air or artificially, by means of the smoke of peat or juniper-berries.
6. Sprightly; gay; light-footed.
7. n. A young man who has been initiated and is classed with the men of his tribe. See bora.

Wiktionary

1. n. A split, salted and smoked herring.
2. n. military An RAF World War II code name for patrols to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
3. v. To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.
4. adj. UK, dialect amorous
5. adj. UK, dialect lively; light-footed; nimble

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A salmon after spawning.
2. n. Scot. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
3. v. To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
4. adj. Prov. Eng. Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. salted and smoked herring