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KIPPER , properly the name by which the male See also:

salmon is known at some See also:

period of the breeding See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season. At the approach of this season the male See also:

fish develops a See also:

sharp cartilaginous See also:

BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak, known as the " kip," from which the name " kipper " is said to be derived. The earliest uses of the word (in Old See also:

ENGLISH

English cypera and See also:

MIDDLE

Middle English kypre) seem to include salmon of both sexes, and there is no certainty as to the See also:

ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology. See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat derives it from the Old English kippian, " to spawn." The See also:

TERM

term has been applied by various writers to salmon both during and after milting; See also:

early quotations leave the precise meaning of the word obscure, but generally refer to the unwholesomeness of the fish as See also:

food during the whole breeding season. It has been usually accepted, without much See also:

DIRECT

direct See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence, that from the practice of rendering the breeding (i.e. " kipper ") salmon See also:

fit for food by splitting, salting and See also:

SMOKE (from O. Eng. smeocan, to smoke, reek, cf. Dutch meek, Ger. Schmauch, probably allied to Gr. vol9caiv)

smoke-drying them, the term " kipper " is also used of other fish, particularly See also:

HERRINGS, BATTLE OF THE

herrings cured in the same way. The " bloater " as distinct from the " kipper " is a See also:

HERRING (Clupea harengus, Haring in German, le hareng in French, sill in Swedish)

herring cured whole without being split open.

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