pickerel

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several small North American freshwater game and food fishes of the genus Esox, especially E. reticulatus, of the eastern and southern United States.
2. n. Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel.
3. n. Chiefly British A young pike.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 1. A small or young pike, Esox lucius.
2. n. A kind of pike: so called in the United States. The common pickerel of North America is Esox reticulatus. It has scaly cheeks and opercles, and from fourteen to sixteen branchiostegal rays; the color is greenish, relieved by narrow dark lines in reticulated pattern. It ranges from Maine to the Mississippi, and is the commonest fish of the kind. The vermiculated pickerel, E. vermiculatus, has scaly cheeks and opercles, and about twelve branchiostegals, and the color is greenish with darker streaks combining in a reticulated pattern. It is found chiefly in the Mississippi Valley. The banded pickerel, E. americanus, is similar, with about twenty blackish transverse bars. It is the smallest of the genus, and is found chiefly in streams near the coast from Massachusetts to Georgia. The so-called northern pickerel is the true pike, E. lucius.
3. n. A pike-perch or sauger: a commercial name of the dressed fish. See Stizostedion.
4. n. A small wading bird, as a stint, a purre, or a dunlin.

Wiktionary

1. n. A freshwater fish of the genus Esox.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A young or small pike.
2. n. Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
3. n. The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. flesh of young or small pike
2. n. any of several North American species of small pike