| 释义 |
ˈshrimping, gerund and vbl. n.
[f. shrimp n. + -ing1.]
1. Catching shrimps.
1848Maunder Treas. Nat. Hist. 617 Shrimp-catching, or Shrimping, as it is termed. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. vi. 128 Shrimping is carried on by many of the women. 1876‘Ouida’ Winter City iii, The women..who go shrimping or oyster-hunting on fashionable sea-shores.
attrib.1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 14 Model Shrimping Boat, showing how four shrimp nets are worked. 1886Fenn Master Cerem. xxi, Fisherman Dick did his work with a shrimping net.
2. Fishing with shrimp as a bait.
1931Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31, I have had splendid sport, owing to this way of shrimping. |