pickerel

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  1. noun 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. noun Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel.
  3. noun Chiefly British A young pike.

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  • Fishing Derby Prizes: $75 for largest overall fish and $20 for the largest fish in each breed of pickerel, brown trout, white and yellow perch, brook trout and smallmouth bass! —  Knox
  • As I drove past the beautiful reservoir, tucked between mountains, I wished the Fish and Boat Commission would stock a few predator fish such as pickerel, northern pike or muskies to eat some of the stunted yellow perch that inhabit the cold deep lake.
  • Opening day for us consisted of warm water species - bass, pickerel, bluegills, perch and hornpout. —  Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
  • There were fish there--pickerel--which would rather swallow him than not. —  The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
  • This is the fish we often read of as the pickerel, and it is taken with a local minnow some 3 in. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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  1. Middle English pikerel, diminutive of pike, pike; see pike2.

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  1. Formerly also pickrell; from Middle English pikerel, pykerel; from pike + -er + -el, double diminutive as in cockerel. Cf. Old French picarel, “the small and white cockerel fish” (Cotgrave).
 

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