[L.] A herring; a pickle or sauce of small herrings or anchovies.
c. 1520. Andrewe, in Babees Bk. (1868), 230. Alec, the heringe, is a Fisshe of the see … when he is fresshe taken he is a very delicious to be eten.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 71. Alec, like garum, was at once the name of a fish and of a sauce made from it.
