pilchard

• What it's like: Same species - pilchard are slightly larger. —  The Guardian World News
• It grieved her tender heart to see him suffer; but she tried to conceal her sorrow, and he never uttered a word of complaint Michael had now become the main support of the family; for though Paul had managed to keep out of debt and have a small supply of money in hand, yet that was gradually diminishing Never fear, Nelly," said Michael, when she told him one day how little they had left; "we must hope for a good pilchard-fishing, and we can manage to rub on till then. —  Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
• But, looking ahead, as the responsibilities of my position make it necessary I should habitually do, I recall the fact that sometimes the placid pilchard is cast upon our shores in such quantities as to be carted away for manurial purposes. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893
• His situation may be compared with that of the Cornish pilchard-fishers, for whom the growing laxity on the part of continental Roman Catholic countries in the observance of Lent is already more than an omen of coming disaster." —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• The pilchard is a little fish resembling a small herring. —  Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines

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