pickerels

Variant of pickerel

noun pl. pickerel or pickerels

  1. any of various small, North American pike fishes (genus Esox)
  2. walleye (sense )
  3. Brit. a young pike

Origin: ME < pik, pike + -rel, dim. suffix

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