mackerel

Definition

Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,

Etymology

From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

Example Sentences

• "[…] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel."
• "I am living fast, to see the Time, when a Book that misses its Tide, shall be neglected, as the Moon by Day, or like Mackarel a Week after the Season."
• "Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack."

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