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bloater

 (n): large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
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9 months ago chained_bear said:

"...the midshipmen's berth was rounding out their pease-pudding and pig's trotters with toasted bloaters, laid in at Valetta, and the smell eddying aft from the galley brought water to his mouth."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 265

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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Make Someday, by chained_bear
Lessons of Wordie, by mollusque