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• blue pickerel — noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes • Syn: ↑blue pike, ↑blue pikeperch, ↑blue walleye, ↑Strizostedion vitreum glaucum • Hypernyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• blue pike — noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes • Syn: ↑blue pickerel, ↑blue pikeperch, ↑blue walleye, ↑Strizostedion vitreum glaucum • Hypernyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes. Also called blue pickerel, blue pikeperch, blue walleye. [1835 45] * * * …   Universalium

• blue pikeperch — noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes • Syn: ↑blue pike, ↑blue pickerel, ↑blue walleye, ↑Strizostedion vitreum glaucum • Hypernyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• blue walleye — noun variety inhabiting the Great Lakes • Syn: ↑blue pike, ↑blue pickerel, ↑blue pikeperch, ↑Strizostedion vitreum glaucum • Hypernyms: ↑walleye, ↑walleyed pike, ↑jack salmon, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Pickerel — Pick er*el, n. [Dim. of {Pike}.] [Written also {pickerell}.] 1. A young or small pike. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of freshwater… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Pickerel weed — Pickerel Pick er*el, n. [Dim. of {Pike}.] [Written also {pickerell}.] 1. A young or small pike. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pickerel — Sauger Sau ger, n. (Zo[ o]l.) An American fresh water food fish ({Stizostedion Canadense}); called also {gray pike}, {blue pike}, {hornfish}, {land pike}, {sand pike}, {pickering}, and {pickerel}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pickerel — Pike Pike, n. [F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see {Pie} magpie), and E. spike. Cf. {Pick}, n. & v., {Peak}, {Pique}.] 1. (Mil.) A foot soldier s weapon,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• pickerel — pick•er•el [[t]ˈpɪk ər əl, ˈpɪk rəl[/t]] n. pl. (esp. collectively) el, (esp. for kinds or species) els. 1) ich any of several small pikes of the genus Esox[/ex] 2) ich the walleye, blue pike, or pikeperch 3) ich Brit. a young pike • Etymology:… …   From formal English to slang

• Blue jack — Jack Jack (j[a^]k), n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. ?, Heb. Ya aq[=o]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a supplanter. Cf. {Jacobite}, {Jockey}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. [1913 Webster] You… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English