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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Syle  \Syle\,  n.  [See  {Sile}  a  young  herring.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  young  herring  ({Clupea  harengus}).  [Also  written  {sile}.] 
 
  But  our  folk  call  them  syle,  and  nought  but  syle,  And 
  when  they're  grown,  why  then  we  call  them  herring.  --J. 
  Ingelow 

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