n., pl., pickerel, or -els.
- Any of several small North American freshwater game and food fishes of the genus Esox, especially E. reticulatus, of the eastern and southern United States.
- Any of various fishes, such as the walleye, similar or related to the pickerel.
- Chiefly British. A young pike.
[Middle English pikerel, diminutive of pike, pike. See pike2.]





