Associations to the word «Pilchard»

Wiktionary

PILCHARD, noun. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.

Dictionary definition

PILCHARD, noun. Small fatty fish usually canned.
PILCHARD, noun. Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats