Results for mackerel

Definitions of mackerel:

part of speech: noun

A sea- fish largely used for food.

part of speech: noun

An edible fish, found in schools in the North Atlantic; mackerel sky, a sky covered with a mass of small white flecks of cloud.

Usage examples for mackerel:

• I heard much about a certain mysterious stranger known as 'Young Si' who was fishing mackerel at this shore. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901", Lucy Maud Montgomery

• I tied some brass medals to a rope, and gave them to those in one of the canoes, who, in return, tied some small mackerel to the rope as an equivalent. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16", Robert Kerr

• " Devilled kidneys, sir; and this is fried mackerel "That Boy Of Norcott's", Charles James Lever