What does "kipper" mean?

Kipper: A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.] Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. "Kippered salmon." Dickens.
  2. 3.Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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