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Definition of "pickerel" [pick•er•el]

  • Any of several small North American freshwater game and food fishes of the genus Esox, especially E. reticulatus, of the eastern and southern United States. (noun)
  • Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel. (noun)
  • Chiefly British A young pike. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pickerel" in a sentence
  • "Large, shallower ponds and lakes favor species such as chain pickerel, northern pike, yellow perch and sunfish."
  • "Then another fellow caught a toothy chain pickerel, his first, went to do the famous bassmaster pickup by the mouth, screamed as the pickerel took and cut up his thumb as he picked it up out of the water."
  • "Yes | No | Report from tourneyking734 wrote 31 weeks 6 days ago when fishing in pickerel grass i put on a 7 (i think that's the lenght) weightless slug-go."