"Pilchard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took a hand, the British Navy would pretty soon be clearing for action. Consequently all through the last week of July, when the word "Germany" began to be printed in large type in Press headlines, the drifters putting out nightly on the watch for the pilchard harvest carried each a copy of The Western Morning News or The Western Daily Mercury to be read aloud, discussed, expounded under the cuddy lamp in the long hours between shooting the nets and ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and mackerel in March: used in drifting in the Chops of the Channel. Also, of ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
