bloater1
/ˈbləʊtə
/noun
A herring cured by salting and light smoking.Many a person has gone away smiling after eating one of these red herring, bloaters or kippers....
- The smokehouse smokes anything that stands still for long enough; pheasant, ham hocks, bloaters, garlic, eel, sausages.
- Yarmouth bloaters soon acquired a national reputation and the town remained in the top ten until the later 18th cent.
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bloater2
/ˈblōdər
/noun
Another term for cisco.Consider two such species, the shortnose cisco and the bloater....
- ‘Cisco’ is the name the Indians gave to several varieties of fish found in the Great Lakes, commonly known as lake herring, bloater, cisco, and long-jaw.