cisco

A fish of the herring kind, of which thousands of barrels are annually taken and salted in Lake Ontario.

← cirrus × cistern →

Cisco
·noun The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. T...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
cisco
The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario, particularly in Chaumo...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.