bloater
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smokedType of herring
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bloat′er (-ẽr), noun
The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; — called also bloat herring.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54