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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[D.

kippen

to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf.

(Zool.)

A salmon after spawning.

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.]

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Kippered

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Kippering

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

“Kippered salmon.”

Dickens.

Adj.

Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

[Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

Noun.

A term applied to a salmon, when unfit to be taken, and to the time when they are so considered.