Definition of "kippering" []

• Present participle of kipper. (verb)

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• "In several parts of the county salmon are cured in a peculiar manner, called kippering; and throughout Scotland kippered salmon is a favourite dish."
• "But Mrs Lucas often spent some of her rare leisure moments in the smoking-parlour, playing on the virginal that stood in the window, or kippering herself in the fumes of the wood-fire as with streaming eyes she deciphered an Elzevir"
• "These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering."