cisco†

[< Cdn. F, shortening of ciscoette, ciscaouette, sisquoette < Ojibwa; cf. siskawet]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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siscoe

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any of several varieties of whitefish, Leucichthys sp., especially L. artedi, found in central and northern Canada.

1917

The fish man had as today's special . . . ciscoes 20 cents a pound.

1958

The 1944 surveys [in Great Slave Lake were] based mainly on whitefish . . . lake trout . . . and ciscoes. . . .