subs. phr. (common).—A herring; a SEA-ROVER (q.v.): see GLASGOW MAGISTRATE.
1883. E. M. Bramley, Life in the New Cut, in Good Words, xxiv. 378/1. Penny ices of rainbow hue, peas-pudding, and hard-boiled eggs rubbing shoulders, as it were, with ‘ATLANTIC RANGERS’ (i.e. red herrings).
