Sc. Also -rin, -rain, -ron. [f. SPELDER v.2] = prec.
1802. Sibbald, Chron. S. P., Gloss., Speldings, Speldrings, small fish (as haddocks) stretched open and dried in the sun.
1834. J. Wilson, Noctes Ambr., xxxiv. Wks. 1856, IV. 88. Finnans! Kipper! Speldrins! Herring!
1881. Day, Fishes Gt. Brit., I. 284. Haddock … are finnan haddocks, when smoked in a peculiar manner: if simply dried, speldrings.
transf. 1820. Blackw. Mag., VIII. 98. Whose place, as soon as he evaporated, was filled by another strange rizzard speldron.
