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/fˈɪʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Fishing n.

The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.

A fishery.

adjective

Fishing adj. Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.

Fishing fly, an artificial fly for fishing.

Fishing line, a line used in catching fish.

Fishing net, a net of various kinds for catching fish; including the bag net, casting net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc.

Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling.

Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing.

Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, etc.

Fishing tube (Micros.), a glass tube for selecting a microscopic object in a fluid.

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Etymology of 'Fishing'

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"Fishing" Quotes from Famous Books

... that surpass it in beauty. We lingered long on the shore. There is a perpetual "jabble" against the cliffs on this coast—and we have seldom met with a soul save an aged and solitary fisherwoman—a study for a Bonington—pursuing her precarious calling of crab or shrimp fishing, or of pulling lobsters from their retreats in ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 494. • Various

... lamentation and of mourning, which echoed along the coast like the peal of an alarm-bell. The dead were laid in heaps upon the beach, and, on the following day, widows, orphans, parents, and brothers, came from all the fishing towns along the coast, to seek their dead amongst the drowned that had been gathered together; or, if they found them not, they wandered along the shore to seek for them where the sea might have cast them forth. Such is the tale of the Sabbath wrecks—of ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various

... packed a basket, gathered the stiff, dry bathing suits from the grass, and lunched far up in the woods. Fishing gear was carried along, although the trout ran small, and each fish provided only a buttery, delicious mouthful. Susan learned to swim and was more proud of her first breathless journey across the pool than were the others with all their expert diving and racing. ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... This pearl fishing was carried on by use of the Indians in a most heartless manner. The poor creatures were kept swimming about under water from early morning until sunset. When they came up with their nets, in which they put the oysters,—from the ...

— Las Casas - 'The Apostle of the Indies' • Alice J. Knight

... passing shipping; a man at the tiller of a Cornish fishing boat waving his cap to us made it clear that we were getting back to our real ain folk once more. At eight in the evening we were lying off Netley Hospital, and taking in the proffered advice of a large board in a field by the waterside to eat Quaker Oats, and by twelve o'clock the following ...

— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross

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