Kip"per (?), n. [D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf. Kipe.]
1. Zool.
A salmon after spawning.
2.
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
[Scot.]
Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]
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Kip"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kippered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering.]
To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
"
Kippered salmon."
Dickens.
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Kip"per, a.
Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
[Prov. Eng.]<-- = chipper? -->
Halliwell.
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