"perchling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, George T. Robinson, The Fall of Metz:",
          "text": "For a little while we had fish, small fry, of all sorts and sizes - gudgeon, little perchlings, minnows, anything - all was fish which came to net; but, the worst of it was, there was not much which did so.",
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          "ref": "1957, John M. Edmonds, The Fragments of Attic Comedy, page 229:",
          "text": "Guzzling upon your perchlings and sprats […]",
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          "ref": "2021, Rae St. Clair Bridgman, Fish & Sphinx, page 190:",
          "text": "[…] well, don't these teeth enjoy crunching shadflybyes, crisp miniminnows, succulent crazyfish, tender snallywaggle snails, luscious leeches, juicy yellow perchlings and even...fresh off-the-bone catfiskie fillets — but only upon occasion, of course.",
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          "ref": "2023, Edward Thomas, The Happy-go-lucky Morgans, page 72:",
          "text": "To live there always, I thought, would be bliss, provided that Philip was with me, always in a house covered with ivy and conducted by an aunt who baked and fried for you and tied up your cuts, and would clean half a hundred perchlings for you without a murmur, though by the end of it her face and the adjacent windows were covered with the flying scales.",
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          "text": "[…] well, don't these teeth enjoy crunching shadflybyes, crisp miniminnows, succulent crazyfish, tender snallywaggle snails, luscious leeches, juicy yellow perchlings and even...fresh off-the-bone catfiskie fillets — but only upon occasion, of course.",
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