'Pilchard' definitions:
Definition of 'pilchard'
From: WordNet
noun
Small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine, pilchard]
noun
Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus]
Definition of 'Pilchard'
From: GCIDE
- Pilchard \Pil"chard\, n. [Cf. It. pilseir, W. pilcod minnows.] (Zool.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England. [1913 Webster]
- Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings. --Shak. [1913 Webster]