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cisco † siscoe [< Cdn. F, shortening of ciscoette, ciscaouette, sisquoette < Ojibwa; cf. siskawet] 
n. any of several varieties of whitefish, Leucichthys sp., especially L. artedi, found in central and northern Canada.
- 1917 The fish man had as today's special . . . ciscoes 20 cents a pound.
- 1958 The 1944 surveys [in Great Slave Lake were] based mainly on whitefish . . . lake trout . . . and ciscoes. . . .
- 1917 The fish man had as today's special . . . ciscoes 20 cents a pound.