noun
- a young herring, especially one that is canned
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- The fishermen caught a large school of sild off the coast.
- Canned sild are popular in Scandinavian cuisine.
- The sild were too small to process as full-sized herring.
- She opened a tin of sild for her lunch.
- The Norwegian fishing fleet specializes in sild harvesting.