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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: obsolete bloat (to cure) Date: 1832 a large fat herring or mackerel lightly salted and briefly smoked II. noun Etymology: ²bloat Date: 1896 a small silvery cisco (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes having oily flesh

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a herring cured by bloating.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bloater Bloat"er (-[~e]r), n. [See Bloat, Blote.] The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.