bloater

Noun

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smokedType of herring
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Bloat′er (-ẽr), noun

Origin: See Bloat, Blote.

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

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