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Definition of Pickled herring
1. Noun. Herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickled Herring
Literary usage of Pickled herring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Award of the Fishery Commission: Documents and Proceedings of the Halifax by Maurice Delfosse, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Alexander Tilloch Galt, United States Dept. of State (1878)
"... and the pickled herring, which you say is a very small proportion of the
business; so I understand you?—A. You understand pretty nearly. ..."
2. A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and by Richard Phillips, James Gates Percival (1826)
"... a soup made like hasty-pudding, of oatmeal or barley- meal, and in order to
render it more palatable, they put in a pickled herring or salted mackarel. ..."
3. The Labrador Coast: A Journal of Two Summer Cruises to that Region by Alpheus Spring Packard (1891)
"pickled herring 16970 bbls. Pickled trout 14 " Pickled mackerel 459 " Dried caplin
58 " EXPORTS BY ... Salmon in tins 30000 Ibs. pickled herring 700 bbls. ..."
4. Statistics of the United States, Including Mortality, Property, &c., in 1860 by James Madison Edmunds (1866)
"... boxes of smoked herring, valued at about 8118,000, in addition to a few thousand
barrels of pickled herring. Of the whole quantity, ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1919)
"... the plaintiff one hundred and fifteen barrels of pickled herring to be carried
from Eastport in the State of Maine to Boston in the county of Suffolk; ..."
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