Hypertext Webster Gateway: "syle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Syle \Syle\, n. [See {Sile} a young herring.] (Zo["o]l.)
A young herring ({Clupea harengus}). [Also written {sile}.]
But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And
when they're grown, why then we call them herring. --J.
Ingelow.
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