[bloh-ter] 
| 1. | a herring cured by being salted and briefly smoked and dried. |
| 2. | a mackerel similarly cured. |
| 3. | a freshwater cisco, Coregonus hoyi, found in the Great Lakes. |
| bloat·er 1 (blō'tər) n. A large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted. [From obsolete dialectal bloat, a soft, moist cured fish, probably from bloat.] |
| bloat·er 2 (blō'tər) n. A small whitefish (Coregonus hoyi) of the Great Lakes and the lakes of eastern Canada. |
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