1. Any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
   "He packed sardines and crackers for a quick lunch"
    
2. Small fatty fish usually canned
   "We enjoyed sardines on toast as a quick snack";
   - pilchard
    
3. Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
   "Sardines are often sold canned in olive oil";
   - pilchard, Sardina pilchardus
    
4. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
   "The jewellery featured a polished sardine gemstone";
   - sard, sardius

1. Force to fit into (or through) a tight space
   "I sardined myself into the corner";
   - wedge, squeeze, force, squash

Derived forms: sardined, sardines, sardining

Type of: calcedony [archaic], chalcedony, clupeid, clupeid fish, displace, food fish, move, saltwater fish

Part of: genus Sardina, genus Sardinia, Sardina

Encyclopedia: Sardine, Queensland