Crossword-Solution: ROED 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

They come south along the coast from the north of Scotland till they are in their prime (full-roed, fat fish) off Yarmouth in October.

She had made a point of insisting upon a brisket of beef and a flat-polled cabbage for dinner every Saturday; and the same, with a “cowcumber,” cold on Sunday; and for supper a soft-roed herring, ever since her widowhood.

Having ascertained from Mr Shepstone that the meeting would be a peaceable one, I was prevailed on to accompany my husband and his brother officers to the conference, and at nine in the morning of the 30th of April we rode out, keeping pretty close to the Cape Corps, the _Roed Batjes_, or red-jackets (as they term the British troops on the frontier) being left at Fort Peddie in reserve.

The Rifle Brigade have taken the coloured population by surprise, as hitherto all soldiers from England have been _Roed Batjes_--red-jackets.

This meant, "Surrender your legal right in Our Lady’s heart, without which I shall have no luck, and I will give you this beautiful fish, hard-roed, and done to a nicety." Ah no, sweet Cora, a good red herring is not to be despised; but who could eat in a reeking hole like this? Once I went, for Judy’s sake, being rash and light of step, into the back premises of a highly respectable butcher.