Definition of "bloater" []

• A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted. (noun)
• A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada. (noun)

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• ""bloater" -- and enabling him to carry out more vigorously his schemes of"
• "Second Lieutenant E.W. C. Perry and his mechanic, H.E. Parfitt, of No. 3 Squadron, who were flying a B.E. 8 machine (familiarly known as a 'bloater'), crashed over the aerodrome at Amiens; the machine caught fire, and both were killed."
• "For Alex Salmond, whose resemblance to a bloater in quite uncanny, this is the first step on a road which he hopes will lead him to his Nobel Peace Prize."