pickerel

Jun. 2nd, 2010 07:42 am
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pickerel - n., (N.Am.) any of several species of small pikes of the genus Esox; (Brit.) a young pike.


Diminutive of pike, itself so named because of its pointed snout, in a sense of the word dating to Old English.

---L.
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