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noun
Kipper  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A salmon after spawning.
2.
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. (Scot.)
Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. (Eng. & Scot.)





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"Kipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Salmon, both the Melter and Spawner, strive also to get into the Sea before Winter; but being stopt that course, or lost; grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony gristle, to grow (not unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he ...
— The Complete Angler 1653 • Isaak Walton
... Perce, reflectively. "Takes some believing, Poll. Nine years. Nine years, and no baby, eh!" He shook his head, like a cat sneezing, and laughed again. "Here, Sally. Have some more kipper. More tea, then. Poll, here's a lady will have some more tea, if you please, ma'am. Sweet enough, Sally? As before, if ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton


Words linked to "Kipper" :   kippered herring


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