kipper

A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.

To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

Sprightly; gay; light-footed.

To prepare or cure, as salmon, herring, etc., by cleansing them well, giving them several dry rubbings of pepper and salt, and then drying them, either in the open air or artificially, by means of the smoke of peat or juniper-berries.

Hooked or beaked, as a spent salmon. See the quotation.

The male salmon when spent after the spawning season.

A salmon detained in fresh water.

A kippered herring; a herring for kippering.

A young man who has been initiated and is classed with the men of his tribe. See bora.

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.