'Pickerel' definitions:
Definition of 'pickerel'
From: WordNet
noun
Flesh of young or small pike
noun
Any of several North American species of small pike
Definition of 'Pickerel'
From: GCIDE
- Pickerel \Pick"er*el\, n. [Dim. of Pike.] [Written also pickerell.]
- 1. A young or small pike. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species. (b) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The federation, or chain, pickerel (Esox reticulatus) and the brook pickerel (Esox Americanus) are the most common American species. They are used for food, and are noted for their voracity. About the Great Lakes the pike is called pickerel. [1913 Webster]
- Pickerel weed (Bot.), a blue-flowered aquatic plant (Pontederia cordata) having large arrow-shaped leaves. So called because common in slow-moving waters where pickerel are often found. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'pickerel'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'pickerel'
From: GCIDE
- Pike \Pike\, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique.]
- 1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A hayfork. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A pick. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A pointed or peaked hill. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- 6. A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A turnpike; a toll bar. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish ({Esox lucius}), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye. [1913 Webster]
- Gar pike. See under Gar.
- Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger.
- Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.
- Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Bal[ae]noptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale.
- Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish.
- Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish (a) . [1913 Webster]