Usually means: Small, silvery fish, commercially significant.
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  1. herring: Merriam-Webster
  2. herring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herring: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herring: Vocabulary.com
  6. Herring, herring: Wordnik
  7. herring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Herring, herring: Wiktionary
  9. herring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. herring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. herring: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Herring, herring: Dictionary.com
  13. herring: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. herring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Herring (disambiguation), Herring (food), Herring (surname), Herring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Herring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. herring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. herring: Rhymezone
  19. Herring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. herring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Herring: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Herring: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. herring: FreeDictionary.org
  24. herring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. herring: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. herring: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. herring: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. herring: Cook's Thesaurus

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  1. herring: Encyclopedia

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  1. herring: Idioms

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  1. herring: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. herring: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
noun:  Fish in the family Clupeidae.
noun:  Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
noun:  A surname.

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