From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kipper \Kip"per\, noun [D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. {Kipe}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A salmon after spawning.
2. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.]
{Kipper time}, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kipper \Kip"per\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Kippered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Kippering}.] To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. ''Kippered salmon.'' --Dickens.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kipper \Kip"per\, adjective Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: salted and smoked herring [syn: {kippered herring}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "kipper": Loch Ness monster, alevin, anguille, anhydrate, benthon, benthos, blast-freeze, brine, caviar, cetacean, corn, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dolphin, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eel, embalm, evaporate, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, freeze, freeze-dry, fry, fume, game fish, grilse, irradiate, jerk, kippered salmon, man-eater, man-eating shark, marinade, marinate, marine animal, minnow, minny, mummify, nekton, panfish, pickle, plankton, poisson, porpoise, preservatize, quick-freeze, red herring, refrigerate, roe, salmon, salt, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake, seafood, season, shark, smoke, smoke-cure, smoked herring, smolt, sponge, stuff, tropical fish, whale
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