1. A small sea fish.

2. A well-known sea fish, moving in shoals.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• herriot,
• herasing,
• vering,
• thering,
• hairing,
• hearin,
• herorine,
• heprin,
• neering,
• ohearing,
• hirering,
• lering,
• yearing,
• hring,
• hamerring,
• hireing,
• heiring,
• hiearing,
• querring,
• hsaring

• heroin,
• herrington,
• herrings,
• earring,
• Harrington,
• hering,
• Hiring,
• hereness,
• hurrying,
• heroine,
• herding,
• hearing,
• herington,
• Hermsen,
• Harring,
• heron,
• hearns.

The adjective form of the word "herring" is "herringish".