Kip"per (?), n. [D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. Kipe.]

1. Zool.

A salmon after spawning.

2.

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.]

 

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Kip"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kippered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering.]

To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

"Kippered salmon."

Dickens.

 

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Kip"per, a.

Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

[Prov. Eng.]<-- = chipper? -->

Halliwell.

 

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