shad

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As Washington Irving says of the Golden Age of Wouter van Twiller, "Happy days when the harvest moon was twice as large as now, when the shad were all salmon, and peace was in the land."

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  1. noun Any of several food fishes of the genus Alosa, especially the North American species A. sapidissima, related to the herrings but atypical in swimming up streams from marine waters to spawn.

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  • Herring and shad were the chief fish caught and when the run came the seine was carried well out into the river in a boat and then hauled up on the shelving beach either by hand or with a windlass operated by horse-power. —  George Washington Farmer
  • Lying fully dressed and handcuffed to the rails of an iron bed for twelve hours while the temperature in a closed-window south-facing room rises to a hundred in the shad* -- well, the heat and the somnolent inactivity would have been just right for a Galapagos tortoise. —  Fear is the Key
  • As Washington Irving says of the Golden Age of Wouter van Twiller, "Happy days when the harvest moon was twice as large as now, when the shad were all salmon, and peace was in the land." —  Memoirs
  • "Happy days when the harvest moon was twice as large as now, when the shad were all salmon, and peace was in the land." —  Memoirs
  • So, likewise, let but the word be given that the shad were ascending the —  Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
 

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  1. Middle English *schad, from Old English sceadd.

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  1. Early modern English shadde, chad; from Middle English *schad, from Anglo-Saxon sceadda, a kind of fish (explained by Somner, Lye, etc., as a skate, but from the form prob. the shad), = German dial. schade, a shad. Cf. Welsh ysgadenyn (plural ysgadan) = lr. Gaelic sgadan, a herring.
 

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