the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of > caught in summer (2)
(a) a herring caught in summer (cf. sense A. 6); (b) U.S. the blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis, which migrates from the Atlantic to spawn in North…
A herring caught in summer; = summer herring n. (a) at compounds 5. Obsolete. rare.