Crossword-Solution: PILCHARDS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Boh! you were best! Remember and tell me, the day you’re hanged, How you affected such a gullet’s-gripe! {20} But you, sir, it concerns you that your knaves Pick up a manner, nor discredit you: Zooks, are we pilchards, that they sweep the streets And count fair prize what comes into their net? He’s Judas to a tittle, that man is! Just such a face! Why, sir, you make amends.

Let them have meat enough, woman—half a hen; There be old rotten pilchards—put them off too; ’Tis but a little new anointing of them, And a strong onion, that confounds the savour.

Shoals of herrings "remained off nearly the entire coast of Ireland from August till December." "Large shoals of pilchards" were observed on the south and south-west coasts.

The days certainly are gone when, after a good haul of pilchards, seventeen can be bought for a halfpenny, and two gentlemen and their servant can have them broiled at a tavern and dine on them for three farthings, dressing and all.

Here, we found, the merchants began to trade in the pilchard-fishing, though not to so considerable a degree as they do farther west--the pilchards seldom coming up so high eastward as Portland, and not very often so high as Lyme.