Meaning of Herring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
3. A ghost town in Sac County, Iowa, United States.
4. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
5. An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States.
6. Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

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Examples

“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”

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