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▪ I. piscary1|ˈpɪskərɪ|
(Also 7 pischary.)
[ad. med.L. piscāria fishing rights, neut. pl. of L. piscārius adj., belonging to fishing, f. piscis fish.]
1. The right of fishing (as a thing owned). Now usually in phr. common of piscary: see quot. 1880.
1474Rolls of Parlt. VI. 166/2 Markettes, Warens, Piscaries, Fre Customes. 1607Cowell Interpr., Piscarie (piscaria),..signifieth in our common lawe, a libertie of fishing in an other mans waters. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xvi. 261 That the eyotts or little islands, arising in any part of the river, shall be the property of him who owneth the piscary and the soil. 1837Macaulay Ess., Bacon (1887) 377 That the most profound thinker..of the age..confounded the right of free fishery with that of common of piscary. 1880Williams Rights of Common 259 Common of piscary is a liberty of fishing in another man's water, in common with the owner of the soil, and perhaps also with others, who may be entitled to the same right.
2. A place where fish may be caught; a fishing-ground, fishery.
a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 136 There is no distresse but vpon Land in demesne, neither could a distresse be taken vpon a Piscary, but that it containeth land and demesnes. 1628Coke On Litt. 198 Breaking their Closes,..cutting their woods,..fishing in their Pischary [Fr. pischarie]. 1714Scroggs Courts-leet (ed. 3) 161 If a Copy⁓holder convert Part of the Land into a Piscary it's a Forfeiture. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 610 Fishermen licensed to angle or net parts of the piscary.
†b. A fish-market. Obs. rare— 0.
[1605B. Jonson Volpone v. iv, The small tenement..By the Piscaria.] 1706Phillips, Piscary, a Place where Fish is kept or sold, a Fish-market.
3. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to piscaries or to fishing.
1869Daily News 23 July, When the humbler tenants of presumed piscary properties were being impoverished. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 273 The piscary laws and customs were severe.
▪ II. † piscary2 Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. piscārius: see prec.]
A fisherman; a fishmonger.
1656Blount Glossogr., Piscary (piscarius), a fisher, or one that sels small fish. |