mackerel

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1. 1

   Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,

2. 2

   Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled, Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.

   […] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.

   I am living fast, to see the Time, when a Book that misses its Tide, shall be neglected, as the Moon by Day, or like Mackarel a Week after the Season.

   Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.

3. 3

   A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)

4. 4

   Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.

5. 5

   A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.

   a mackerel sky

   MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.

   Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry.

   Mackerel in the sky, three days dry. […] Mackerel sky, mackerel sky - never long wet, never long dry.

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1. 1

   obsolèteA pimp; also, a bawd.

   1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536. […] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]

   NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL

   Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing.

   2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare https://web.archive.org/web/20201001221812/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/VarPp2-HSO0/QuMJdNOwfisJ A procurer or a pimp is a broker (or broker-between), a mackerel, or a pandar; the last is not necessarily-and, indeed, not usually-a professional.

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mackerels