sardine
sardine (sär-dēnʹ) noun
1. Any of various small or half-grown edible herrings or related fishes of the family Clupeidae, frequently canned in oil or water, especially the pilchard of European waters.
2. Any of numerous small, silvery, edible freshwater or marine fishes unrelated to the sardine.
verb, transitive
sardined, sardining, sardines
Slang.
To pack tightly; cram: "The bars are sardined with hungry hopefuls" (Gael Greene).
[Middle English sardin, from Old French sardine, from Latin sardīna, from sarda, a kind of fish, ultimately from Greek Sardō, Sardinia.]