Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sperling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sperling \Sper"ling\, n. [See {Sparling}.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A smelt; a sparling. [Prov. Eng.]
(b) A young herring. [Local, U.S.]
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