fishn.1
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ 1. † c. God's fish: see god n. and int. Phrases 3b(a). od's fish: see od n.1 and int. Compounds 3.
a. In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provided with fins and destitute of limbs; but extended to include various cetaceans, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. In modern scientific language (to which popular usage now tends to approximate) restricted to a class of vertebrate animals, provided with gills throughout life, and cold-blooded; the limbs, if present, are modified into fins, and supplemented by unpaired median fins.Except in the compound shellfish, the word is no longer commonly applied in educated use to invertebrate animals.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun]
fishc825
fin1549
free fish1602
ichthyoid1863
the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > aquatic animal
fishc825
aquatic?c1600
water animal1603
aquatile1638
water breather1832
rheophile1939
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish
fishc825
meat fish1511
dogfish1612
cetaries1661
fishery1828
chicken of the sea1836
fish food1883
c825 Vesp. Psalter viii. 9 Fuglas heofenes & fiscas saes.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 129 Alle þe fiscas þe swummen in þere se.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Fishshes and fugeles.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 10/302 A fair ȝwater with grete fischsches.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 160 God made..ilc fuel and eruerilc fis.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 180 A Monk. whan he is recchelees Is likned til a fissh þt is waterlees.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvjv/2 Fysshes alle blacke.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings iv. 33 He talked..of foules, of wormes, of fiszshes.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 179 He [the Pearch] is one of the fishes of prey. View more context for this quotation
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 138 Whales..and other great Fishes.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 334 Shells of Fishes, known by the Name of Cowries.
1727 J. Gay Fables I. iv. 14 The Fishes..skim beneath the main.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 1 The whale and the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster..as..mankind..have been willing to give them all..the name of fishes, it is wiser in us to conform.
1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) iii. 68 Fishes seem to have been the master existences of five succeeding formations, ere the age of reptiles began.
b. collective singular used for plural.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > collective
fisha1400
(fish) of every fin1726
Pisces1805
fishery1828
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9395 Foghul and fiche, grett thing and small.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiii. 57 Criste..filled þaire nettes full of fisch.
1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij a A scoll of ffysh.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 48 Herrynge and other fyche that was tane on the see.
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Somerset xxiii For the fyshe casting forth his net.
1611 Bible (King James) Num. xi. 22 Shal all the fish of the sea bee gathered together for them? View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 401 Fish..with thir Finns and shining Scales Glide under the green Wave. View more context for this quotation
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 136 Let the Fish surround Thy bloated Corse.
1780 W. Cowper Let. 5 June (1979) I. 345 When I Write to you, You Answer me in Fish. I return you many Thanks for the Mackerel and Lobster.
1803 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire II. 132 Such port is frequented by fish of passage [Ger. die Zugfische].
1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 384 Herrings..mackerel, cod-fish, whitings, haddocks, and some others, may with propriety be called fish of passage.
d. Applied to the turtle.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > turtles or sea-tortoises
sea-tortoise1601
soldier1608
turtle1657
thalassian1852
shell-back1853
turkle1861
fish1898
1898 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 3/1 The sea round about the West Indies is the happiest hunting-ground for green turtle. The fish (the dealers describe them as fish) are usually taken in the manner described.
1908 Daily Chron. 6 Nov. 7/3 The ‘fish’, as they are called in the trade, are probably as tenacious of life as any animal.
e. U.S. slang. A dollar.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar
skin1834
rock1837
buck1856
scad1856
simoleon1881
plunk1885
clam1886
slug1887
bone1889
plunker1890
ace1900
sinker1900
Oxford1902
caser1907
iron man1907
man1910
berry1918
fish1920
smacker1920
Oxford scholar1937
loonie1987
1920 Collier's 5 June 44/4 I..shoved my way Through the howlin' mob on the en route to the box office To collect our four hundred fish.
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves xii. 168 She was heiress to a sum amounting to more than fifty million fish.
1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm 11 Used to get fifteen fish for an exhibition of six-no-count.
f. Nautical slang. (In full tin fish.) A torpedo; also, a submarine.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo
torpedo1776
Whitehead1872
fish-torpedo1878
mouldy1916
fish1925
torp1929
pickle1931
kipper1953
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > submarine
submarine1889
Holland1899
sub1915
pigboat1921
fish1925
guppy1948
killer submarine1955
snorter1962
nuclear1969
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 282 A tin fish, a torpedo.
1927 Daily Express 12 Oct. 3 ‘Hi!’ comes the hail, ‘we've got your tin fish!’ At the end of a rope is the shining, dripping, steel torpedo.
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 293 Fish, torpedo;..submarine.
1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 26 A try was made for a large one, but in the clear water the wake of the tin fish was too easily seen.
1943 Penguin New Writing 16 19 The air seemed full of falling bombs, and tinfish like carelessly dropped cigarettes splashed among the crowded ships.
1946 R. Harling Steep Atlantick Stream ii. 29 They do say the old QM's had a tin-fish under her tail.
1967 B. Knox Blacklight i. 16 The Navy didn't like losing a torpedo... Each ‘fish’ represented some £3,000 in cash.
2.
a. Applied figuratively to a person (also collective to persons) whom it is desirable to ‘catch’ or ‘hook’.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > object of desire > person
scope1590
fish1723
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 137 The Subtil Devil..found us proper Fish for her Hook.
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 29 [26] The Fish [a rich young booby] is hook'd.
1885 Boy's Own Paper 5 Sept. 771/1 People would think he was an easy fish to catch.
b. Used (with prefixed adjective) unceremoniously for ‘person’.
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the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities
thingc1225
headc1300
vesselc1384
soul1498
sprite?1507
spirit1559
stick1682
character1749
fish1751
hand1756
subject1797
person1807
good1809
specimen1817
a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869
proposition1894
cookie1913
type1922
city1946
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little (ed. 2) ii. ix. 253 They..smoked him for a queer fish, as the phrase is.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 57 He was an odd Fish.
1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/2 Humourists, for they were of all descriptions... Odd fishes.
1831 Examiner 395/2 The lady, who was a ‘loose fish,’ became acquainted with him.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. (1882) 19/2 The queerest, coolest fish in Rugby.
1871 J. H. Banka State Prison Life iv. 60 ‘Fresh fish’ is the name applied to all newcomers.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. i. 38 I'm tired of being nice to every poor fish in school.
1930 A. Christie Murder at Vicarage x. 79 Well—of all the poor fish! If I'd committed a murder, I wouldn't go straight off and give myself up.
1958 Listener 9 Oct. 568/1 The old man is revealed as having been a very cold fish.
3.
a. The flesh of fish, esp. as used for food; opposed to flesh, i.e. the flesh of land-animals, and fowl, that of birds.
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1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 159 Hij eteþ more fisch þan flesh.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxvi. 461 Female fysshes ben more longe than male fysshes and haue more harde fysshe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13502 Þis bred and fisse was delt abute.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 60 Salt fisch.
c1460 J. Lydgate Secrees 1653 In etyng of ffyssh make no contynuaunces.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 232 Ships..furnished with Bisket..freshe Water, salt Fishe.
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxv. 143 We mortifie our selves with the diet of fish.
1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Green Fish is that which is just salted, and yet moist.
1777 Travis in T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. v. 14 The fish of a Lobster's claw is more tender, delicate, and easy of digestion than that of the tail.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. vi. 251 Fish forms a powerful manure.
b. Meat having the qualities of fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat
gross meatc1460
fish1607
crimp-meat1656
small meata1662
second hand1694
slink1736
soup-meat1841
box meat1856
sacrifice meat1926
MRM1980
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 572 The taile of a Beaver is fish, but the taile of an Otter is flesh.
4. Astronomy.
a. the Fish (also Fishes) (Latin Pisces), a zodiacal constellation, situated between Aquarius and Aries.
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the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Pisces
the Fish (also Fishes)c1386
Piscesa1450
c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 265 Now dauncen lusty Venus children dere, For in the fyssh her lady sat ful hye.
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 267 Laste of the 12 signes commeth the Fyshes.
b. the Southern (†South) Fish (Latin Piscis australis, anciently Piscis notius major), a southern constellation, bounded on the north by Capricorn and Aquarius.
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1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 271 The Southe fyshe, containynge 12 starres.
Phrases
P1.
a. a nice (also pretty) kettle of fish (colloquial): an awkward state of things, a ‘muddle’. to be (also feel) like a fish out of water: to be or feel out of one's element. drunk (dull, mute) as a fish: very drunk (etc.). to drink like a fish: to drink excessively. to feed the fishes: (a) to meet one's death by drowning; (b) to be seasick. all is fish that comes to (also †in) (his) net: i.e. nothing comes amiss to him, he turns everything to account.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [phrase] > turn everything to account
all is fish that comes to (also in) (his) net1523
all is grist that comes to his mill1885
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > of person: feel nausea > types of nausea
to tell what wood the ship is made of1580
to feed the fishes1870
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > feeling wearied or bored [phrase] > wearisome or tedious
(as) flat as a pancake1611
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1889
crack is wack1986
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvi. 727 Suche as came after toke all..for all was fysshe that came to net.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xii. 636 The Arabians out of the desarts are as Fishes out of the Water.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 48 All's fish that comes in net.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 7 He is as mute as a fish.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 61 Thou art both as drunk and as mute as a Fish.
1744 T. Gray Let. 26 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 225 Mr. Trollope & I are in a course of Tar-water;..I drink like a Fish.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Faire toutes Voiles blanches, to cruise as a pirate; to make all fish that comes to the net.
1821 J. G. Lockhart Let. 13 July He..drinks like a fish.
1837 T. Hood Drinking Song xi He's the..drinker that verily ‘drinks like a fish!’
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xi. 71 You're as mute as a fish.
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea vii. 319 Being a commission agent, it is all fish that comes to my net.
1870 H. Meade Ride New Zealand 313 His first act was to appease the fishes..by feeding them most liberally.
1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot vii A woman who drank like a fish and swore like a trooper.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal vi The lawyer..was as a fish out of water here.
1889 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus iv And there you stand, As dull as a fish!
1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel i. ii. 19 I better anticipate the gay tidings—I drink like a fish.
b. In other proverbial expressions.
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1556 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbs Eng. Tounge (rev. ed.) i. xi. sig. B.viii Fishe is caste awaie that is cast in drie pools.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) i. iii. sig. D1v No swearing, He'l catch no fish else.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 117/2 The Prouerbe sayes, If you sweare you shall catch no fish.
1710 Brit. Apollo 31 May–2 June 'Tis good Fish, if it were but Caught.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. xvi. 332 There were still as good fish in the sea, as had ever yet been caught out of it.
P2. neither fish nor flesh (nor good red herring), also neither fish, flesh, nor fowl: i.e. neither one thing nor another; without the particular qualities (or merits) of either. to have other fish to fry: to have other business to attend to. to make fish of one and flesh (or fowl) of another: to make an invidious distinction; to show partiality. to cry stinking fish: see cry v. 5b(b).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > of indeterminate character
neither fish nor flesh (nor good red herring)1528
ambiguous1603
yea-and-nay1648
yea and nayish1777
borderline1937
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > have business in hand > have other business to do
to have other haft(s) in handc1325
to have other fish to fry1660
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. i iijv Wone that is nether flesshe nor fisshe.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciiiv She is nother fishe nor fleshe nor good red hearyng.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 127 Shees neither fish nor flesh, a man knowes not where to haue her. View more context for this quotation
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxiv. xlv. 540 He had the party himselfe in jelousie and suspition, as one neither fish nor flesh, a man of no credit.
1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie To Rdr. They that are neither of both, but betwixt both, neither Fish nor Flesh, but plaine Red-Hearing.
1660 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 132 I fear he hath other fish to fry.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise Epil. sig. A4v Damn'd Neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red-Herring.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 123 To me it seems..neither Fish nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶6 A Letter that was neither Fish, Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 220 I will not make Fish of one, and Flesh of another.
?1795 H. More Two Wealthy Farmers: Pt. I 18 I could make neither head nor tail of it. It was neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring.
1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh liii A brat that's neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, nor good red herring.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 May 5/2 This is making fish of one and fowl of another with a vengeance.
1889 M. Oliphant Poor Gentleman xliv ‘I've got other things in hand..I've got other fish to fry’.
1939 J. Fante Ask the Dust x. 105 You're dancing with a freak, an outcast from the world of man, neither fish, fowl, or good red herring.
1986 P. L. Fermor Between Woods & Water (1988) vii. 186 Among the rank and file of Catholics in Transylvania they [sc. Uniats] seemed somehow—and rather unfairly—neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring.
2004 Australian (Nexis) 18 Nov. 11 He has traded monarchism for republicanism, ditched the old Left for the new Right, and then moved on to something else altogether, something neither fish nor fowl, nor good red herring.
Compounds
C1. In combination with various qualifying words. Also angelfish n., flatfish n., flying fish n., goldfish n., jellyfish n., shellfish n., sunfish n., swordfish n.
blubber-fish n. fish yielding blubber, as the whale, porpoise, etc.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > member of
whalec893
cetec1220
blubber-fish1756
sea-pig1826
cetacean1835
1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Royal fish, are dolphins and sturgeans; as also in France, are salmon and trout; so called, because they belong to the King, when cast upon the sea-shore..Blubber-fish are whales, porpoises, tunnies, sea-calves, and other fat fish.
fish-royal n. = royal fish n. at royal adj. and n. Compounds 1.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > that must be offered to crown
regal fish1562
royal fish1576
fish-royal1776
1776 Customs Manor of Epworth in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 When any fish royal be taken in the river of Trent, within this Manor..it belongs to the Lord of the Manor.
C2. General attributive.
a. General relations:
(a) Simple attributive.
(i) (In sense 1.)
fish-bone n.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 220/2 Fysshebonne, areste.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 1) iv. 4 Fish-bones..in the dark make a bright lustre.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. ix. 228 The points of these lances are sometimes made of fish-bone.
fish-bowl n.
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1906 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. viii. 32 A large garden fish-bowl..is decorated in the usual style with enamel colours.
1964 Listener 23 Apr. 682/1 The Chinese made their fishbowls out of porcelain.
fish-egg n.
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1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea iii. 76 The collection and distribution of fish-eggs.
fish-guts n.
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1777 Travis in T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. v. 14 The bait is commonly fish-guts tied to the bottom and middle of the net.
fish-haunt n.
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1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 50 The angler..must find these fish-haunts.
fish-shell n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 307 The said hairs burnt in some earthen pan or fish-shell.
fish-skin n.
fish-spawn n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 366 They are impregnated in the manner of fish-spawn.
(ii) (In sense 3.)
fish-dinner n.
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια Isagoge sig. D5 Before the eating of a fish dinner, the body is not to be heated with exercise.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 474 The famous Anna Rencha, whom we invited to a Fishdinner, after 4 daies in Lent.
fish-meal n.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 89 Making many fish meales, that they fall into a kind of male greene sicknes. View more context for this quotation
fish tea n.
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1930 Daily Express 16 Aug. 8/7 If there is any Guards officer who is forced to indulge in fish teas, [etc.].
(b) Connected with the catching or selling of fish. † fish-officer n. Obsolete† fish-shambles n. Obsolete† fish-ship n. Obsolete
fish-bag n.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for fish
fisher-pan1535
fish-bag1815
fish-basket1838
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 11 If my fish-bag should fall in the way of such a man.
fish-bait n.
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1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 275 Won't the laundress rub the skin off her knuckles when she tries to get the fish-bait off your ruffled skirt.
fish-bar n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > snack bar
buffet1792
breakfast-stall1853
fish-bar1887
stand-up1897
pizzeria1901
luncheonette1924
snack bar1930
snackette1935
snackery1936
pizza bar1956
Wimpy Bar1959
Wimpy1966
salad bar1976
1887 Mod. London 195/1 A fish bar where those tempting little fish luncheons popularly denominated ‘snacks’ may be had at all hours.
fish-basket n.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for fish
fisher-pan1535
fish-bag1815
fish-basket1838
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxi. 20 Women with fish-baskets on their heads.
fish-boat n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun]
fisher-boatc1440
fish-craft1480
fisherman1604
fisher-ship1614
fish-ship1676
fishing-boat1732
fishing-ship1785
fish-boat1792
catcher1829
fishera1862
fishing-craft1875
1792 Spalding's Hist. Troubles Scotl. (new ed.) I. 111 18 gentlemen..passing the water of Findorn in a fish-boat [c1650 (1850) ferry-boat], were pitifully drowned.
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 117 Like a fish-boat beached.
fish-boy n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > young
fisher boy1621
fish-boy1853
fisher-child1870
fisher-girl1888
1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone xiii. 217 The fish-boys struck up a dismal chant of victory.
fish-craft n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > art or treatise
fish-craft1480
halieutics1646
piscatology1859
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun]
fisher-boatc1440
fish-craft1480
fisherman1604
fisher-ship1614
fish-ship1676
fishing-boat1732
fishing-ship1785
fish-boat1792
catcher1829
fishera1862
fishing-craft1875
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 12 Seuarn is swyft of streme, fishecraft is therin.
1866 Game Laws Connecticut in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 34 Shall forfeit the value of the seine and fish-craft used for said purpose.
fish-creel n.
fish-frail n.
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a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 33 In you reeled, my boy, as drunk as a deacon with..a fish-frail full of stout.
fish-line n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun]
linec1374
fishing-line1466
string1585
thread1602
fish-line1639
taum1670
1639 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 79, 2. *fish lines.
1864 J. T. Trowbridge Cudjo's Cave xliii. 451 Arms and head hung down, causing him to resemble..a frog hooked on for bait at the end of a fish-line.
1913 J. London Valley of Moon iii. i Hall had sent out fish-lines and a swimming suit.
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fish-net n.
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xix. 21 Hwy ge nu ne settan on sume dune fisc net eowru.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 175 Werpinde ut here fishnet in þe se.
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 20 Goose to get in a fish-net set!
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood > officer permitting sale of fish
fish-officer1472
1472 Presentmts. of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 23 Þt þy sell noy feche wt owt yt be abyld be fyche offesers.
fish-salesman n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xv. 154 An eminent fish-salesman.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for sale of food > for sale of meat or fish
coney-cheaping?a1325
flesh-shamblesa1410
shamblesa1410
poultry1423
butcher rowa1425
poultry market1437
flesh-market1535
fish-shambles1601
Smithfield1647
piscary1706
meat market1722
fish-market-
fish-street-
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 243 The Maquerels..furnish the fish shambles.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun]
fisher-boatc1440
fish-craft1480
fisherman1604
fisher-ship1614
fish-ship1676
fishing-boat1732
fishing-ship1785
fish-boat1792
catcher1829
fishera1862
fishing-craft1875
1676 London Gaz. No. 1144/1 Several English Fish Ships are arrived.
fish-shop n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > fish or seafood
fish-housec1000
fisher-house1525
oyster cellar1772
fish-shop1826
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses
ordinary1590
chop-house1699
porterhouse?1730
steak house1762
beef-house1807
rotisserie1825
fish-shop1826
supper tavern1841
supper house1855
supper room1858
grill-room1883
teetotum1891
grill1896
bar and grill1903
corner-house1912
bistro1922
roadhouse1922
hot doggery1923
rosticceria1930
dinette1940
British Restaurant1941
drive-through1949
drive-up1956
sobaya1958
carvery1962
ouzeri1964
crêperie1967
steak restaurant1970
sushiya1970
steak bar1971
buka1972
kopitiam1979
bukateria1980
churrascaria1981
parrilla1981
Indian1982
theme pub1983
parrillada1984
restobar1992
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 58 Pedestrians..turn in to sup at the fish-shops.
fish-spear n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > spear > [noun]
pricka1350
garfanglec1440
wawsper1472
spear1551
waster1580
fizgig1589
visgee1593
fish-spear1611
glaive1640
fish-giga1642
gaff1656
gig1705
lance1728
sticker1772
graina1818
picaroon1837
pickpole1837
fishing-spear1840
lily-iron1852
gambeering iron1883
mackerel gaff1883
1611 Bible (King James) Job xli. 7 Canst thou fill..his head with fish-speares ? View more context for this quotation
1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods II. xi. 144 Upon this pillar..were laid or suspended sundry Indian utensils of the kitchen and the field,..wooden bowls..fish spears [etc.].
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 150 To enjoy it to perfection, extricate the creature from his lurking place far down in the blue crevice of the coral, with a fish-spear.
fish-stall n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink
shamblec1305
flesh-stall14..
fisher-stall1572
fish-stall1818
whelk-stall1842
coffee stall1850
poultry stall1852
peanut stand1853
raw bar1914
doggery1930
pannam1972
1818 Sporting Mag. 2 100 Well pleas'd with the bargain, she left the fish-stall.
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fish-street n.
fish-trap n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun]
fish-trap1837
fishing box1861
fishing-hutch1868
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 44 Trout and other fish, which they catch..in ‘fish traps’.
fish-van n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > fish
fish-van1858
fish-wagon1865
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fish-van, a light spring-cart for transporting fish; a railway truck set apart for fish.
fish-wagon n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > fish
fish-van1858
fish-wagon1865
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind i. 11 The fish waggon comes by.
fish-woman n.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew
scoldc1175
shrewc1386
viragoc1386
scolder1423
common scold1467
wild cat1570
vixen1575
callet1577
termagant1578
(Long) Meg of Westminster1589
butter whore1592
cotquean1593
scrattop1593
scoldsterc1600
butter-quean1613
Xantippea1616
fury1620
Tartar1669
fish-woman1698
cross-patch1699
Whitechapel fortune1734
brimstone1751
randy1762
fish-fag1786
rantipole1790
skellata1810
skimmington1813
targer1822
skellat-bell1827
catamaran1834
nagster1873
yenta1923
1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 141 You may hear them..Abuse one another like Fish-Women.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 170 In those private letters..the Princess expressed the sentiments of a fury in the style of a fish-woman.
(c) In the names of dishes, etc., composed of fish.† fish-broo n. Obsolete † fish-pickle n. Obsolete
fish-ball n.
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1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 100 The breakfast was waiting for him, the fishballs were getting cold.
1872 E. A. Hart Runaway iii. 67 The viands that it might be possible to carry out to Olga. Soup?.. Fish~balls?
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 316 Fish Balls, with Brown Sauce.
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fish-broth n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > fish-soup
coulis1603
fish-broth1660
bisque1715
fish-soup1723
anchovy-cullis1725
shrimp gumbo1805
fish-chowder1838
lobster bisque1895
ukha1911
shark's fin soup1933
zuppa di pesce1961
fish-broo-
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. Fish-broth, or fish-pickle, murette de poisson.
fish-cake n.
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1854 Harper's Mag. May 802/1 The favorite comestible was the piroga, a very unctuous kind of fish~cake.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 316 Fishcakes in Curry.
fish-chowder n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > fish-soup
coulis1603
fish-broth1660
bisque1715
fish-soup1723
anchovy-cullis1725
shrimp gumbo1805
fish-chowder1838
lobster bisque1895
ukha1911
shark's fin soup1933
zuppa di pesce1961
fish-broo-
1838 E. C. Wines Trip to Boston 79 We had ‘clam chowder’ and ‘fish chowder’.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 84 Harvey stuffed himself to the brim on fish-chowder and fried pies.
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1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. Fish-broth, or fish-pickle, murette de poisson.
fish-pie n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > seafood pie
lamprey bakec1440
lamprey-pie1599
oyster pie1601
lumber-pie1656
fish-pie1725
stargazy pie1846
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Fish Pie, a Dish usually serv'd upon Days of Abstinence.
fish-pudding n.
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1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 316 Fish Pudding, in tins.
fish-soup n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > fish-soup
coulis1603
fish-broth1660
bisque1715
fish-soup1723
anchovy-cullis1725
shrimp gumbo1805
fish-chowder1838
lobster bisque1895
ukha1911
shark's fin soup1933
zuppa di pesce1961
fish-broo-
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. F8 Strain it through a Sieve..and use it to simmer Fish-soops.
1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/1 Fish soup is made out of the ‘trimmings’ of fish.
fish-stock n.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor > fish stock or liquor
corbulliona1655
sagamité1698
court bouillon1723
fish-stock1787
fish-liquor1832
fumet1906
stickwater1915
dashi1963
1787 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 4) 166 Take what quantity may be wanted of fish~stock.
1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 51 The receipt for a fish-stock which is as strengthening and succulent as can well be desired.
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fish-breeder n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-farmer or -breeder
garth-man1389
garther1679
pisciculturist1858
fish-breeder1860
fish-culturist1874
fish-farmer1876
mariculturist1969
1860 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1859: Agric. 232 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set. (36th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 11) VI Practical hints to fish breeders.
1890 E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sci. v. 214 So far as it affects the procedure of fish-catchers, fish-breeders, or fish-culturists.
fish-cadger n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xx. 189 Hendry had been to the fish-cadger in the square.
fish-catcher n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun]
fisherc893
fisherman1526
fish-catcher1530
fish-man1540
fisher-swain1627
piscary1656
fish-carle1804
fisher-carl1870
piscicapturist1881
stationer1905
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 220/2 Fysse catcher, peschevr.
fish-curer n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > curing > fish-curer
cure-master1622
curer1791
fish-curer1847
kipperer1902
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. x. 183 I have seen a fish-curer's vat throwing down its salt when surcharged with the mineral.
fish-fryer n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > fish-fryer
fryer1859
fish-fryer1892
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > frying-pan
frying pan1382
frixory1657
spider1807
fry-pan1832
fryer1859
padella1874
fish-fryer1892
chip pan1901
skillet1917
1892 Encycl. Cookery I. 660/1 Larger fish require a vessel called a fish-fryer, which is fitted with a perforated or wire strainer.
1893 Daily News 14 Apr. 6/6 The wife of a fish-frier.
fish-hawker n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
1866 Cornhill Mag. May 616 Fish-hawkers wrangle and organ-grinders count their ill-gotten coppers.
fish-seller n.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 163/1 Fysch sellare, piscarius.
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fish-breeding n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun]
pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
1860 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1859: Agric. 232 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set. (36th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 11) VI The best methods of securing success in artificial fish breeding.
fish-packing n.
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fish-eating adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating fish
fish-fed1614
piscivorous1661
ichthyophagous1828
fish-eating1835
fish-feeding1835
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 323/1 The fish-eating Osprey.
fish-producing adj.
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the world > the earth > water > [adjective] > fish-producing
fishy1552
fishable1611
fish-producing1890
1890 Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 3/1 The fish-producing lakes and rivers.
fish-selling adj.
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society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [adjective] > selling fish
fish-selling1768
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 280 Fish-selling rhetoricians.
(e) Similative.† fish-drunk adj. Obsolete
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Embarbascar To make fishe drunke.
fish-eyed adj.
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1937 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses x. 199 Its fish-eyed challenge that dared any man to speed its heart.
a1940 W. J. Turner Sea Music in P. M. Jones Mod. Verse (1940) 138 Thro' the fish-eyed meadows Flows the herd-pasturing ocean.
fish-faced adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
lean-visaged1686
flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xviii. 143 He's no worse than that fishfaced blighter.
fish-haunted adj.
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1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 184 I myself, I know, How on the sea fish-haunted ye bore a weight of woe.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid xi. 248 The fish-haunted river Padusa.
fish-like adj.
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > fish-like
fishy1611
piscose1686
pisciform1814
fish-like1835–6
ichthyoid1855
fish-shaped1878
ichthyomorphic1879
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 25 A very ancient and fish-like smell. View more context for this quotation
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 93/2 The elongated fish-like form of those amphibia.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 232 Dull fish-like eyes.
fish-shaped adj.
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > fish-like
fishy1611
piscose1686
pisciform1814
fish-like1835–6
ichthyoid1855
fish-shaped1878
ichthyomorphic1879
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 8 The counters should be long or fish-shaped.
(f) Instrumental and originative.
fish-derived adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > consisting or made of fish
fishy1699
fish-derived1883
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. xxxvi Fish-derived products.
fish-fed adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating fish
fish-fed1614
piscivorous1661
ichthyophagous1828
fish-eating1835
fish-feeding1835
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 297 Fish~fed Carmanians.
fish-feeding adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating fish
fish-fed1614
piscivorous1661
ichthyophagous1828
fish-eating1835
fish-feeding1835
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 280/1 The fish-feeding Grallæ.
(g) Appositive.
fish-god n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > that takes form of fish
fish-god1856
fish-goddess1856
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1856) v. 256 Dagon the Fish-god.
fish-goddess n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > that takes form of fish
fish-god1856
fish-goddess1856
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1856) v. 256 Derceto, the Fish-goddess.
b. Special combinations. Also fish-day n., fish-gig n., fish-hook n., fishmonger n., fishpond n., fish-pool n., fish-skin n., fish-tail n., fish-whole adj., fishwife n.† fish-basil n. Obsolete (see quot.). † fish-climber n. Obsolete ? = fish-berry n.† fish-ear n. Obsolete (see quot.).† fish-fast n. Obsolete the observance of fish-days (see fish-day n.). † fish-leep n. Obsolete a fish-basket. † fish-mariner n. Obsolete the sail-fish.† fish-mint n. Obsolete water-mint.† fish-range n. Obsolete a place for catching and drying fish. † fish-stew n. Obsolete = fishpond n.: see stew n.1† fish-stone n. Obsolete ? a stone table for the sale of fish.† fish-stove n. Obsolete = fish-stew n. † fish-yard n. Obsolete = fishgarth n.
fish and chips n. a dish consisting of fried fish and fried chipped potatoes; also elliptical for a shop at which this dish may be bought ready-cooked; also attributive, esp. in form fish-and-chip.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun]
gyngawdry?c1390
salomenec1430
sorréc1430
tavorsayc1450
spitchcock1601
minnow tansy1655
kedgeree1662
pepperpot1698
matelote1723
water-souchy1726
pitchcock1739
flibrigo1762
twice-laid1777
ngapi1800
a kettle of fish1823
brandade1825
fish supper1829
truite au bleu1834
sole (à la) Colbert1846
bouillabaisse1855
fish and chips1876
hákarl1879
sashimi1880
timbale1880
gefilte fish1892
stamp and go1893
truite bleue1907
waterzooi1915
accra1919
Bismarck herring1931
gravlax1935
goujon1940
coddie1941
seviche1951
tuna salad1953
crabstick1956
zarzuela1956
sole Véronique1960
fish finger1962
moqueca1980
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > selling specific goods
fish-and-chip1876
jug and bottle1894
surplus1951
bucket-shop1973
nearly-new1976
1876 in Listener (1965) 3 June 826/3 Fish and chip shops were a considerable source of nuisance.
1913 B. S. Rowntree & M. Kendall How Labourer Lives iii. 169 Fish and chips..3[d.].
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club x. 122 We'll go and see ‘George Barnwell’ at the Elephant and have a fish-and-chips supper afterwards.
1940 Economist 26 Oct. 517/2 The fish and chips sellers have been blessed by the Ministry of Food.
1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 61 Ask at the fish and chips in the Market Square.
1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning iii. 44 A study of social rank will normally involve an examination of population,..poverty shops (fish and chips, secondhand dealers, pawnbrokers, etc.).
1970 Which? Mar. 68/2 If it is classified as a dwelling house, you can't use it as a fish and chip shop without first getting planning permission.
fish-backed adj. shaped like a fish's back, swelling upwards.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > upwardly convex
hulch-backed1611
perch-backed1652
coppling1670
humpbacked1681
hog-backed1717
sow-backed1728
fish-backed1825
whalebacked1869
whaleback1891
beetle-backed1959
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 644 Fish-backed rail.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > wild basil
calamint1322
mountain calamint1449
horse-thyme1548
corn-mint1551
wild pennyroyal1552
basil1578
fish-basil1597
mountain mint1597
stone basil1597
nep1614
nepitella1926
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > other herbs
maroilea1400
purslanea1400
centinode?a1425
rosemarya1425
sauce-alone1530
samphire1542
larix1548
ancoly1561
Crestmarine1565
tarragon1591
fish-basil1597
muscado1612
Jew's mallow1640
mekin1688
Tarentine1698
Shawnee salad1780
hemidesmus1809
roquette1900
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 549 L'Obelius..calleth it [another wilde Basill] Corcoros, which we haue Englished Fish Basill.
fish-basket n. (a) a basket used for carrying fish (see Compounds 2a(b)); (b) U.S. a creel for catching fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fish
swill1352
junketa1382
fish-leepc1440
weel?a1475
hask1579
swad1602
roaring1615
rope basket1811
kit1847
cawl1865
roarer1887
fish-basket1955
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. ix. 179 They unite, and thus form a semicircle like a fish basket.
1844 S. S. Haldeman in Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 351 Various species are abundantly caught..in fish-baskets, made of lath~work, with diverging walls of stone.
1867 Game Laws Penn. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 100 It shall not be lawful to take, catch, or kill..any fish, by means of any fish-basket.
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 16 So come not near my dam and weir, Let my fish-basket be.
fish-bed n. a deposit containing the fossil remains of fishes.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > organic remains or fossils
moorlog1655
coal plant1695
leaf bed1697
plant bed1784
oyster bed1833
stem-bed1853
forest-bed1861
starfish bed1861
fish-bed1869
insect-bed1893
lagerstätte1972
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 75 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Bones of marine animals are so abundant as to have induced Professor L. Agassiz, twenty years ago, to call it the ‘fish bed’ of the Charleston Basin.
fish-bellied adj. shaped like a fish's belly, ‘curved underneath, the depth of curve increasing towards the centre’ (Lockwood).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > downwardly convex
fish-bellied1834
fish belly1878
1834 Edinb. Rev. 60 118 Fish-bellied instead of parallel rails.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 282 The line was..laid with fish-bellied rails.
fish belly n. (a) see quot. 1878; (b) attributive = fish-bellied adj.; (c) used attributively of a degree of whiteness.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles
thistlec725
carduea1398
wolf's-thistlea1400
cardoona1425
wolf-thistle1526
cotton-thistle1548
gum-thistle1548
oat thistle1548
black chameleon1551
ixia1551
Saint Mary thistle1552
milk thistle1562
cow-thistle1565
bedeguar1578
carline1578
silver thistle1578
white chameleon1578
globe thistle1582
ball thistle1597
down thistle1597
friar's crown1597
lady's thistle1597
gummy thistle1598
man's blood1601
musk thistle1633
melancholy thistle1653
Scotch thistle1660
boar-thistle1714
spear- thistle1753
gentle thistle1760
woolly thistle1760
wool-thistle1769
bur-thistlea1796
Canada thistle1796
pine thistle1807
plume thistle1814
melancholy plume thistle1825
woolly-headed thistle1843
dog thistle1845
dwarf thistle1846
welted thistle1846
pixie glove1858
Mexican thistle1866
Syrian thistle1866
bull thistle1878
fish belly1878
fish-bone-thistle1882
green thistle1882
herringbone thistle1884
Californian thistle1891
winged thistle1915
fish-thistles-
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as other typical things
swan-white1393
paper-whitec1430
ice-white1641
pearl white1779
lint-white1794
wool-white1819
fish belly1878
wax-white1883
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > downwardly convex
fish-bellied1834
fish belly1878
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 33/1 Fish belly, the Cnicus heterophyllus plant. The underside of the leaf is white, and turns up in the wind.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn v. 39 A tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
1888 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 3) 38 Fish-bellied,..malleable iron rails of the fish-belly pattern.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 63 Fish-belly whiteness.
fish-berry n. a name for Cocculus indicus, the fruit of Anamirta cocculus, used for stupefying fish.
fish-blooded adj. cold-blooded.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold-blooded
cold-bloodeda1616
chill1751
cool-blooded1767
bloodless1794
cold1849
fish-blooded1898
1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 3/1 Not that the historian is fish-blooded and without predisposition.
1923 Daily Mail 27 Feb. 8 The Ministerial policy of fish-blooded neutrality.
fishbone-stitch n. (see quot. 1957).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > other
accrue1725
gobble stitch1788
seam-stitch1825
marking stitch1861
dot1882
seam1882
basket-darning1884
basting1885
bridle1885
padding stitch1913
stab-stitch1917
tuck-stitch1926
prick stitch1928
fishbone-stitch1932
pad stitch1964
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 182/2 Note fish-bone stitch on frayed edges.
1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 131/1 Fishbone-stitch, series of diagonal single-purl stitches zigzagged across an unmarked line.
fish-bone-thistle n. = fish-thistles n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles
thistlec725
carduea1398
wolf's-thistlea1400
cardoona1425
wolf-thistle1526
cotton-thistle1548
gum-thistle1548
oat thistle1548
black chameleon1551
ixia1551
Saint Mary thistle1552
milk thistle1562
cow-thistle1565
bedeguar1578
carline1578
silver thistle1578
white chameleon1578
globe thistle1582
ball thistle1597
down thistle1597
friar's crown1597
lady's thistle1597
gummy thistle1598
man's blood1601
musk thistle1633
melancholy thistle1653
Scotch thistle1660
boar-thistle1714
spear- thistle1753
gentle thistle1760
woolly thistle1760
wool-thistle1769
bur-thistlea1796
Canada thistle1796
pine thistle1807
plume thistle1814
melancholy plume thistle1825
woolly-headed thistle1843
dog thistle1845
dwarf thistle1846
welted thistle1846
pixie glove1858
Mexican thistle1866
Syrian thistle1866
bull thistle1878
fish belly1878
fish-bone-thistle1882
green thistle1882
herringbone thistle1884
Californian thistle1891
winged thistle1915
fish-thistles-
1882 Garden 1 Apr. 220/1 Chamæpeuce (Fish-bone Thistle).
fish-bone-tree n. ‘the Panax crassifolium, a small araliaceous tree of New Zealand’ ( Cent. Dict.).
fish-brant n. U.S. a snow-goose.
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1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 243 The snow-geese are all called fish-brant.
fish-brine n. a fish-sauce.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > sauces made with fish
anchovy sauce1654
oyster sauce1727
cockle sauce1755
garum1766
liquamen1804
fish-brine1820
nuoc mam1885
bagoong1910
nam pla1931
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 128 Liquamen, uel garum, fiscbryne.
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 From inadvertence pour the fish-brine into their lentil-soup.
fish-broth n. (see Compounds 2a(c)), humorously, salt-water.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > sea water > [noun]
fish-broth1599
tide1791
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 44 The churlish frampold waues gaue him his belly full of fish-broath.
fish-car n. a box in which fish are carried alive in the water.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > basket for keeping live fish
leapc1000
coop1469
leap weel1601
leap-head1611
corfa1825
fish-car1883
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 199 Model of fish-car towed by the smack for keeping the catch alive.
fish-carle n. Scottish a fisherman (Jamieson).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun]
fisherc893
fisherman1526
fish-catcher1530
fish-man1540
fisher-swain1627
piscary1656
fish-carle1804
fisher-carl1870
piscicapturist1881
stationer1905
1804 W. Tarras Elegy on Sautie 11 Poems 143 Ye fish-carles never lift an oar, In codlin greed.
fish-carrier n. (a) a vessel used to transport the ‘catch’ from the fishing-boats to the shore; (b) a contrivance for keeping fish alive whilst transporting them from place to place.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which store, freeze, or transport fish
well-boat1614
fish-pool1718
sack ship1732
well smack?1758
carrier1825
sale-boat1840
ice boat1846
plunger1860
runner1881
pound-boat1884
run boat1884
fish-carrier1886
smacka1891
shacker1902
Klondiker1926
factory trawler1928
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for fish > specific live fish
fish-carrier1886
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 4/1 I went out to the fleets on board a steam fish-carrier.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Dec. 2/2 Among Mr. Burgess's other notions, however, one took the form of a fish carrier. The carrier he has invented is made of zinc.
fish-carver n. a carving knife for fish; plural a carving knife and fork for fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > knife
dressing knife1362
trencher-knife1392
bread knife1432
kitchen knife1433
dresser knifea1450
carving-knifea1475
sticking knife1495
chipper1508
chipping knife1526
butcher's knife1557
striking knife1578
mincing knife1586
cook's knife1599
oyster knife1637
randing knife1725
stick knife1819
chopping-knife1837
carver1839
butch knife1845
fish-carver1855
fruit-knife1855
rimmer1876
throating knife1879
steak knife1895
paring knife1908
1855 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) p. xxxvii, (caption) Fish Carvers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > cocculus indicus plant or berries
cocculus indicus1591
fish-climber1704
Indian berry1765
fisher's berry1787
1704 Nat. Hist. ix, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 246 Fish-Climer. Has a welted Stalk..its Beans are red, with a black Kernel: these being bruised and cast into Rivers, intoxicates the Fish.
fish-commissioner n. an officer appointed to superintend fisheries.
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1866 Game Laws Vt. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 63 The Governor is hereby authorized..to appoint two persons, to be styled fish commissioners.
fish-coop n. (a) = fish-pot n.; (b) ‘a box about three feet square used in fishing through ice’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket
bow-neta1000
leapc1000
weel1256
willow1385
pichea1398
cruive14..
creel1457
coop1469
butt1533
hive1533
wilger1542
fish-pota1555
pota1555
loup1581
leap weel1601
willy1602
putt1610
leap-head1611
weir1611
putcher1781
fish-coop1803
fishing box1861
crib1873
1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 277 A fish-coop..for taking fish in the Humber, made of twigs, such as are called eel pots in the south.
fish-cow n. = cow-fish n. 1.
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1860 M. Reid Odd People 359 The manatee, or ‘fish-cow’.
fish-crow n. U.S. a crow ( Corvus ossifragus) that feeds mainly on fish.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > other types of
hooded crow?a1513
tropic crow1781
temia1809
fish-crow1812
scapulated raven1869
pied crow1897
1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. V. 27 Fish-crow: Corvus ossifragus.
1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 287 The Fish-crows..are running over the wet sands.
1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 682/2 The fish-crow fishes only when it has destroyed all the eggs and young birds it can find.
fish-cultural adj. of, pertaining to, or concerned in fish-culture, piscicultural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [adjective]
intensive1832
piscicultural1856
cultural1868
fish-cultural1872
maricultural1903
sea-farming1962
1872 (title) Transactions of the American Fish Cultural Association.
fish-culture n. the artificial breeding of fish, pisciculture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun]
pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea iii. 74 His elaborate treatise on the art of fish-culture was written in the German language, but also translated into Latin.
fish-culturist n. one engaged in fish-culture, a fish-breeder, a pisciculturist.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-farmer or -breeder
garth-man1389
garther1679
pisciculturist1858
fish-breeder1860
fish-culturist1874
fish-farmer1876
mariculturist1969
1874 Amer. Cycl. III. 219 This method has been extensively adopted by American fish culturists.
fish dive n. (see quot. 1952).
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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements > pose
attitude1721
arabesque1828
pose1845
écarté1922
fish dive1943
1943 K. Ambrose Ballet-lover's Pocket-bk. iii. 40 A lift from the climax of the Aurora pas de deux; known to dancers as the ‘fish dive’.
1952 L. Kersley & J. Sinclair Dict. Ballet Terms 78 Poisson, a position of the body in which the dancer arches her back, lifts her head, and bends back her legs with the feet crossed. This pose may be sustained while jumping..or in double work when the girl is supported in this position and the term pas poisson or fish dive is used.
1959 Times 26 Jan. 6/5 Her dancing betrayed signs of unsteadiness only in the exacting ‘fish-dives’ in the final pas-de-deux.
fish-eagle n. an eagle that preys upon fish.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey)
pygarga1398
ospreyc1450
ospring1530
water eagle1562
bone-breaker1598
ospringer?1611
ossifrage1658
fish-eagle1678
fishing hawk1694
fishing eaglea1792
eagle fisher1801
fish-hawk1808
break-bones1838
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 59 A Fisher~man of Strasburgh..sets forth the Bald Buzzard under the title of Fish-Eagle.
1890 H. M. Stanley in Pall Mall Gaz. 28 June 2/2 Fish eagles.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > gill(s) or parts of
ginnle?c1475
gill vein1683
arista1691
radius1691
fish-ear1748
operculum1752
flap1803
opercle1808
subopercle1822
preoperculum1828
preopercule1842
preopercular1851
interoperculum1855
preoperclec1857
raker1903
1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 233 The other [order of Fishes] is furnish'd with Organs analogous to Lungs, which we call Fish-Ears, or Gills.
fish-eater n. (a) one who lives chiefly upon fish; (b) chiefly plural a knife and fork to eat fish with.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > eating fish > fish-eater
fish-man1540
ichthyophagi1555
ichthyophagan1607
ichthyophagist1727
fish-eater1728
the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > cutlery > for eating fish
fish-eater1883
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ichthyophagi Fish-eaters, the Name given to a People, or rather to several different People, who lived wholly on Fishes.
1849 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. 2nd Ser. 632/1 (heading) Babylonian fish-eaters.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 78 Fish Eaters, Fish Carvers.
fish-eye n. (a) (also fish's eye) a variety of moonstone; a diamond or imitation diamond; (b) (see quot. 1958); (c) used attributively or as adj. of a wide-angle lens with a curved front resembling a fish's eye; also elliptical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > other gems or precious stones > [noun]
hepatitec1305
ligurec1305
bdellium1382
chodchod1382
nevyn1393
asteritea1398
medusa1398
myrrhitea1398
astrion1398
emastycec14..
pinkardinec1400
iralc1420
oriel?a1425
serpentine1426
nakettec1450
pentestc1450
sun's gemc1475
sepulchre-stone1489
moonstonea1500
piantea1500
efestide1567
astroite1569
polyp stone1583
bedle1591
balanite1601
eshime1613
lyncury1638
asteria1646
pangony1658
palasin1678
palatine1678
rhombite1688
tree-stone1698
toad's eye1747
peacock stone1753
turquoise1796
odontolite1819
pagoda stone1860
tangiwai1863
fish-eye1882
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > other types of diamond
violastrec1400
lasque1678
black diamond1689
carbonadoa1853
carbonate1860
carbon1869
river stone1873
fish-eye1882
white1895
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > faults in steel
pin1816
roke1867
fish-eye1882
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [adjective] > types of lens
flat field1841
wide-angle1865
slow1867
wide-angled1873
fast1877
rapid1878
fish-eye1882
sharp1883
symmetrical1890
telephotographic1891
telephotographic lens1891
narrow-angle1893
stigmatic1896
tele-negative1898
tele-positive1898
bloomed1945
soft1945
wide-field1950
1882 E. W. Streeter Precious Stones (ed. 3) 96 The ‘Fish's Eye’ becomes red by transmitted light, undergoing the same changes as a bead of Schmetze paste.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 33 Fish eye,..a diamond.
1916 F. B. Wade Diamonds vi. 139 The stone that is too thin will have a ring of brilliancy around a black and empty centre producing the so-called ‘fish eye’ effect.
1942 Metal Progress XLII. 201 (heading) Fish-eyes in steel welds caused by hydrogen.
1942 Metal Progress XLII. 203/2 ‘Coarsely crystalline fracture’ surrounded by normal fibrous metal in tensile and impact specimens showing ‘flakes’, ‘snowflakes’, ‘fish-eyes’, and such variously named seats of hydrogen embrittlement..can be immediately recognized by that outstanding characteristic whereby the affected zones stand out brilliantly against the darker fibrous background.
1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 94/11 Fish eyes, a term used in reference to micro~fissures occurring in steel.
1961 R. Schreyer et al. Dict. Photogr. 192/2 Fish-eye lens.
1969 Amateur Photographer 28 May 73/1 The range of lenses is immense. The widest angle is given by fish-eye types which reduce the image scale at the edges more than in the centre.
1971 Pop. Photogr. Aug. 60 (advt.) A fisheye conversion lens.
1971 Pop. Photogr. Aug. 90/1 The fisheye could be used to obtain an even broader coverage.
fish-eye-stone n. Mineralogy obsolete synonym of apophyllite n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > feldspathoid > zeolite > apophyllite
fish-eye-stone1805
ichthyophthalmite1805
apophyllite1810
albin1818
tessellite1819
oxhaverite1827
xylochlore1868
1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 601 Ichthyophthalmite or Fish-eye-stone.
fish-face n. a term of abuse.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
swinec1175
beastc1225
wolf's-fista1300
avetrolc1300
congeonc1300
dirtc1300
slimec1315
snipec1325
lurdanc1330
misbegetc1330
sorrowa1350
shrew1362
jordan1377
wirlingc1390
frog?a1400
warianglea1400
wretcha1400
horcop14..
turdc1400
callet1415
lotterela1450
paddock?a1475
souter1478
chuff?a1500
langbain?c1500
cockatrice1508
sow1508
spink1508
wilrone1508
rook?a1513
streaker?a1513
dirt-dauber?1518
marmoset1523
babiona1529
poll-hatcheta1529
bear-wolf1542
misbegotten1546
pig1546
excrement1561
mamzer1562
chuff-cat1563
varlet1566
toada1568
mandrake1568
spider1568
rat1571
bull-beef1573
mole-catcher1573
suppository1573
curtal1578
spider-catcher1579
mongrela1585
roita1585
stickdirta1585
dogfish1589
Poor John1589
dog's facec1590
tar-boxa1592
baboon1592
pot-hunter1592
venom1592
porcupine1594
lick-fingers1595
mouldychaps1595
tripe1595
conundrum1596
fat-guts1598
thornback1599
land-rat1600
midriff1600
stinkardc1600
Tartar1600
tumbril1601
lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
renegado1622
fish-facea1625
flea-trapa1625
hound's head1633
mulligrub1633
nightmare1633
toad's-guts1634
bitch-baby1638
shagamuffin1642
shit-breech1648
shitabed1653
snite1653
pissabed1672
bastard1675
swab1687
tar-barrel1695
runt1699
fat-face1740
shit-sack1769
vagabond1842
shick-shack1847
soor1848
b1851
stink-pot1854
molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
wind-sucker1880
fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > oaths other than religious or obscene
tega1529
porkling1541
goodyear1579
dogfish1589
rope1598
beefeater1610
mutton-monger1620
fish-facea1625
bacon-picker1653
thunder1709
thunderation1836
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]
muskin1530
vizard1568
monkey-face?1589
chitty-face1601
angel face1605
smock-face1605
fish-facea1625
platter face1631
ammunition face1649
horn-facea1668
baby facea1684
crab face1706
hatchet face1707
splatter-face1707
paddock-face1724
pudding face1748
dough face1755
Madonna face1790
company face1798
moon-face1822
pug-facea1845
puss1844
frog-face1872
bun-face1913
bitch face1969
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq/1 Whether would you fish face.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ix. 687 O, shut up, fish-face.
fish-fag n. a female hawker of fish, a fishwife.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew
scoldc1175
shrewc1386
viragoc1386
scolder1423
common scold1467
wild cat1570
vixen1575
callet1577
termagant1578
(Long) Meg of Westminster1589
butter whore1592
cotquean1593
scrattop1593
scoldsterc1600
butter-quean1613
Xantippea1616
fury1620
Tartar1669
fish-woman1698
cross-patch1699
Whitechapel fortune1734
brimstone1751
randy1762
fish-fag1786
rantipole1790
skellata1810
skimmington1813
targer1822
skellat-bell1827
catamaran1834
nagster1873
yenta1923
1786 J. Wolcot Bozzy & Piozzi 21 With vulgar fish-fags to be forc'd to chat.
1860 Times 8 Mar. 8/4 We rail away at one another..with the impotence of fish-fags.
fish-farm n. a place where fish-culture is carried on.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-farm
farm1841
water farm1850
fish-farm1865
aquafarm1967
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea viii. 347 Fish-farms for the cultivation of the oyster alone.
fish-farmer n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-farmer or -breeder
garth-man1389
garther1679
pisciculturist1858
fish-breeder1860
fish-culturist1874
fish-farmer1876
mariculturist1969
1876 All Year Round 29 Apr. 162/1 Broad-leaved aquatic plants are a real blessing to the fish farmer.
fish-farming n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun]
pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 330 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Area for fish-farming.
1969 Guardian 20 Nov. 7/3 Flat fish..spawn only once a year, a productivity level unacceptable to those interested in fish farming.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > day > on which fish is eaten > observance of
fish-fast1554
1554 T. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xviii. 49 Fish-fasts, vows, pilgrimages.
fish-feast n. U.S. a festival traditionally held by North American Indians at the beginning of the salmon season.
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1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1895) II. 163 It was now the season of the annual fish-feast, with which the Indians in these parts celebrate the first appearance of the salmon in this river [sc. the Columbia].
fish festival n. = fish-feast n.
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1845 P. J. de Smet Oregon Missions (1847) 119 I arrived among the Arcs-a-plats in time to witness the grand fish festival, which is yearly celebrated.
fish-finder n. a device for locating fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > device for locating fish
fish-finder1961
1961 New Scientist 9 Nov. 362/1 In ordinary trawling the fish-finder apparatus has its transducer set in the hull of the ship.
1962 New Scientist 2 Aug. 251/1 An ingenious use of a small magnetic memory drum is made in a new type of fish-finder for trawlers.
fish finger n. a small finger-shaped or rectangular section of fish coated in batter or breadcrumbs.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > rissoles, balls, or croquettes > [noun]
rishew1340
pomedorry1381
rafiolea1425
raynoll?c1425
pomea1450
andouillet1611
raviol1611
tamale1625
patty1660
poupiets1702
croquette1706
rissole1706
potato cake1747
Basque1769
potato ball1817
Cecils1819
polpetta1822
quenelle1827
kibbeh1829
meatball1835
kromeski1846
quenelle de volaille1846
quesadilla1848
kungu cake1865
ponhaus1869
frikkadel1870
albondigas1872
fricandel1872
Vienna steak1874
pirozhok1887
kofta1888
paupiette1889
cheeseball1895
keftedes1912
baozi1927
crab cake1929
falafel1936
klops1936
coddie1941
wonton1948
fish finger1962
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun]
gyngawdry?c1390
salomenec1430
sorréc1430
tavorsayc1450
spitchcock1601
minnow tansy1655
kedgeree1662
pepperpot1698
matelote1723
water-souchy1726
pitchcock1739
flibrigo1762
twice-laid1777
ngapi1800
a kettle of fish1823
brandade1825
fish supper1829
truite au bleu1834
sole (à la) Colbert1846
bouillabaisse1855
fish and chips1876
hákarl1879
sashimi1880
timbale1880
gefilte fish1892
stamp and go1893
truite bleue1907
waterzooi1915
accra1919
Bismarck herring1931
gravlax1935
goujon1940
coddie1941
seviche1951
tuna salad1953
crabstick1956
zarzuela1956
sole Véronique1960
fish finger1962
moqueca1980
1962 Listener 22 Mar. 510/1 Cornflakes and frozen fish-fingers, oven-ready chickens, and wrapped, sliced bread.
1970 Which? Apr. 105/1 Fish fingers are white fish fillets, coated with crumbs.
1970 Which? Apr. 106/1 All the fish fingers are a valuable source of protein. Three fish fingers will give an 8-year-old child a fifth of his or her daily protein requirement.
fish-flake n. U.S. a frame upon which fish is laid to dry.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > drying frame or stick
stage1535
hake1609
flake1623
fish-flake1767
fishing-flake1861
fish stick1875
1767 Boston Gaz. 26 Jan. (advt.) Several Fish Houses, and Fish Flakes now fit for Curing Fish.
1819 Massachusetts Spy 19 May 4/3 While attending the fish flakes at Windmill Point.
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. v. 49 A sort o' fish flakes.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) x. 197 The houses here were surrounded by fish-flakes close up to the sills.
fish-flour n. (a) = fish-meal n.; (b) ‘a dry inodorous fertilizer made from fishes, used for manure’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish meal or flour
fish-meal1854
fish-flour1879
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 141 Biscuits made from fish-flour..were in good condition after having been kept for ten years in an unsealed jar.
1956 Nature 17 Mar. 512/2 Much attention is being given [in S. Africa] to the production of fish flour in a form suitable for enriching bread.
1963 Spectator 15 Feb. 191 Fish flour, which has been developed in the US, would seem to be everything that a cheap, protein-rich food should be.
1968 M. Pyke Food & Society ii. 19 An argument about fish ‘flour’. This is a product composed of fat-extracted, dried and powdered fish.
1969 N. W. Pirie Food Resources v. 140 Initially the product was called ‘fish flour’; now however, because of protests from flour millers, it is called ‘fish protein concentrate’ or FPC.
fish-fly n. U.S. any of various small insects belonging to the order Megaloptera and family Corydalidæ, especially those included in the genus Chauliodes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Megaloptera > family Corydalidae
fish-fly1866
1866 Prairie Farmer 16 June 412/1 (heading) Large Fish Fly.
1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 211 The so-called comb-horned fish-fly..is the commonest form throughout the United States.
1955 Sci. News Let. 14 May 313/2 The fishfly, which begins its slow, nocturnal flights about this time of the year, is among the earliest insects with complete metamorphosis, fossil records show.
fish food n. (a) = 3; (b) the food eaten by fishes.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by fish
refeta1475
fish food1883
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish
fishc825
meat fish1511
dogfish1612
cetaries1661
fishery1828
chicken of the sea1836
fish food1883
1883 A. Shea Newfoundland Fisheries 12 Their excellence would give them a high place in the fish-food market.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 Aug. 2/2 Fish-food from the sea.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1149/3 Zoological department... Fish Food—per pkt.— 11½.
1936 Discovery Feb. 43/1 On northern streams the Stone Fly and Alder Fly are more numerous, among aquatic insects forming fish food, than the May Fly.
1967 V. Canning Python Project ix. 175 Bags of hound meal, fish and bird food were stacked on the floor.
fish-fry n. (a) U.S. a picnic where fish is fried and eaten; (b) = fry n.1 3.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun] > clam-bake or fish-fry
squantum1812
fish-fry1824
bake1835
clambake1835
the world > animals > fish > [noun] > young > collective
brood1389
fry1389
menise?c1425
small fry1577
minutes1598
foul1765
fish-fry1951
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > in second year or smolt
fry1389
smolt1469
sprod1617
smelta1634
skegger1653
salmonsews1672
salmon smelt1681
hepper1861
fish-fry1951
1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 66 Fish~fries are held about once in a fortnight.
1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 168 The young clerks and lawyers..concocted a ‘fish-fry’.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind ii. 25 For two years he had squired her about the County, to balls, fish fries, picnics and court days.
1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 10 Tiniest fish-fry in a rock-bound pool.
fish-gaff n. a pole with an iron hook at the end by means of which heavy fish are secured when caught with a line.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > prongs or hooks for landing fish
grab-hook1608
gaff1656
weir-hook1688
pew1765
click-hookc1810
picaroon1837
gaff-hook1844
pew-gaffa1884
fish-gaff1887
snigger1901
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 June 6/2 His two sisters..were cut and stabbed with a fish-gaff.
fish geranium n. U.S. a garden variety of geranium, Pelargonium hortorum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > geranium
canker1559
bloody cranesbill1634
geranium1760
scarlet geranium1760
pelargonium1813
Tom Thumb1847
fish geranium1865
1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 581 I remarked..on viewing some fish geraniums..how much their scent was like that emitted from the scales of a fresh fish.
1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1261/2 Fish or Bedding Geraniums.
1946 M. Free All about House Plants xvii. 163 House Geraniums (P[elargonium] hortorum), also known as Bedding, Horseshoe, Fish and Zonal Geraniums.
fish-globe n. a spherical glass vessel in which fish are kept.
fish-glue n. glue obtained from the bladders and sounds of fish, isinglass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > animal- or fish-derived glue
gluec1400
mouth gluec1540
fish-glue1601
taurocol1678
sturgeon glue1907
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 438 This fish-glew [Ichthyocolla] is thought to be best, that is brought out of Pontus.
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 116 Isinglass, or Fish-glew.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 181 Isinglass or Fish-glue is the prepared air-bladder or swimming-bladder of the sturgeon.
fish-gorge n. a primitive implement for catching fish, consisting of something (e.g. a stone) fastened by a string for the fish to swallow.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > other fishing devices
raw1533
taining1533
kepper1558
rack1735
fluke-rake1766
runner1766
jig1846
bush1880
fish-gorge1883
gorge1883
1883 B. Phillips in Cent. Mag. Apr. 900/1 Starting with the crude fish-gorge, I can show, step by step, the complete sequence of the fish-hook.
fish guano n. = fish-manure n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1857 1st Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1856 ii. 81 The manufacture of ‘fish guano’, as recently attempted.
1870 Rep. Mass. Board Agric. I. 196 ‘Fish guano’..consists of the dry residuum of the fish-oil factories on the New England coast.
1884 C. W. Smiley in U.S. Commiss. of Fish & Fisheries, Report for 1881 665 Six farmers used about five sacks each of fish guano.
fish-hack n. a name of the Gobius niger (Adm. Smyth).
fish-hatcher n. one who rears fish from spawn.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 336 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The result was successful beyond the expectation of the amateur fish-hatchers.
fish-hatchery n. a place for the rearing of fish by artificial means.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > hatchery
salmon fishery1732
hatchery1857
fish-hatchery1885
1885 Times 18 Sept. 3 The Government may..see the importance..of fish hatcheries.
1897 Congr. Rec. 8 Jan. 602/2 A bill granting to the state of Washington certain lands..for the purpose of a fish hatchery.
fish-hatching n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun]
pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
1862 London Society Aug. 134 All that can be at present done by the press is to show the ease with which a fish-hatching apparatus can be established.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 319 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Chinese..have practised fish-hatching successfully for centuries.
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 59 This being needed for fish-hatching purposes, another larger steamer..has just been built.
fish-hawk n. the osprey, or bald-buzzard ( Pandion haliaëtus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Pandionidae (osprey)
pygarga1398
ospreyc1450
ospring1530
water eagle1562
bone-breaker1598
ospringer?1611
ossifrage1658
fish-eagle1678
fishing hawk1694
fishing eaglea1792
eagle fisher1801
fish-hawk1808
break-bones1838
1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. V. 25 God bless the Fish-Hawk and the fisher!
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 27 Fish-hawks were sailing overhead.
fish-horn n. a tin horn used on fishing-boats or by sellers of fish.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > horn or bell used by sellers
muffin bell1822
fish-horn1856
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] > horn or hooter
post-horna1652
steam-trumpet1801
blast-horn1844
fish-horn1856
hooter1878
klaxon1910
beep-beep1929
1856 F. S. Cozzens Sparrowgrass Papers iii. 38 Mrs. Sparrowgrass asked me who that was ‘blowing a fish-horn’.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xix. 351 The instrument leaping out into various angular flourishes, as if a fish~horn had got above its business and were ambitious of the reputation of a key-bugle.
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony iv. 82 The tuneless reverberations of the archaic fish-horn.
1947 L. G. Green Tavern of Seas (1952) i. 7 The fish horn is music only in the ears of those who love Cape Town.
fish-house n. †(a) a place where fish are kept; (b) a place where fish is sold.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
fish-poolc950
fish-housec1000
viverc1330
stew1387
piscinaa1398
piscinea1400
fishpondc1440
trunk1440
moat1463
stagnec1470
servatorya1475
viviera1500
fish-stew1552
vivarium1600
shut1605
fish-stove1615
keep1617
estang1628
vivarya1634
nursery1772
preserve1849
whalerya1880
fish tank1957
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > fish or seafood
fish-housec1000
fisher-house1525
oyster cellar1772
fish-shop1826
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 184 Piscinale, fischus.
1483 Cath. Angl. 132/2 A Fische house, piscarium.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3748/4 A sand..stretcheth from the South end of the Town to the most Southern Fish~houses.
1877 S. O. Jewett Deephaven 224 Going to market was apt to use up a whole morning, especially if we went to the fish-houses.
fish insect n. = silver-fish n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > member of genus Lepisma (silver-fish)
sugar-mite1796
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
slicker1902
fish insect1905
silver lady-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > machilis maritina (bristle tail)
bristletail1706
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
fish insect1905
1905 Daily Chron. 21 July 2/7 A common fish insect, which had been injuring photographs and photographic material.
1948 ‘P. Woodruff’ Whatever Dies 170 There were old copies of the..Field, half eaten away by fish-insects.
fish-kettle n. a long oval vessel for boiling fish.
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fish-kettle1681
braising-kettle1825
whistling kettle1928–9
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §1. 2 A long Cauldron like a Fish-kettle.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 16 Over the pan, or fish kettle, put a gridiron.
fish-knife n. a broad knife, usually of silver, for cutting and serving fish at table; also, a knife for eating fish with.
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fish-knife1403
board-knifec1440
table knifea1475
butter knife1729
dessert-knife1793
balance-knife1833
cuttoe1851
steak knife1895
1403 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 20 j. fyschknyff, ij d.
1825 T. Cosnett Footman's Direct. 129 Have two soup-ladles and fish-knives.
1826 The Ass 1 Apr. 2 You there with the pinking eyes and the fish-knife nose.
fish-ladder n. a series of steps to enable fish to ascend a fall or dam by a succession of leaps.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish passage or ladder
salmon leapa1387
fish-way1845
fish-pass1861
pass1861
fish-ladder1865
salmon ladder1867
salmon pass1867
zigzaga1877
1865 Michigan Gen. Statutes (1882) I. 574 Sufficient and permanent shutes or fish ladders to admit of the free and uninterrupted passage of fish over such dam or dams.
1885 G. C. Bompas Life F. Buckland ix. 189 Many fish-ladders had proved useless.
fish-leaves n. the pondweed Potamogeton natans, the flat leaves of which were formerly supposed to give shelter to fish.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > pondweed
pondweed1578
water spike1578
water caltrop1597
potamogeton1601
frog's lettuce1633
pickerel weed1653
pondweed1706
flatter-dock1820
tench-weeda1825
fish-leaves1886
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 184 Fish leaves.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fish
swill1352
junketa1382
fish-leepc1440
weel?a1475
hask1579
swad1602
roaring1615
rope basket1811
kit1847
cawl1865
roarer1887
fish-basket1955
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 163/1 Fysch leep, nassa.
fish-liquor n. the liquid in which a fish has been boiled.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor > fish stock or liquor
corbulliona1655
sagamité1698
court bouillon1723
fish-stock1787
fish-liquor1832
fumet1906
stickwater1915
dashi1963
1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) V. 365 He's actually discussing the whole concern! fish, fish-liquor, bread, and butter, and parsley.
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fish-liver-oil n. a term applied to the oil obtained from other fish than the cod ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1884).
fish-lock n. = fish-weir n.
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weir839
fish-weirc1000
yair1178
fishgarth1454
eel-bed1483
water frith1584
frith1602
garth1609
fish-lock1661
crawl1682
fish-yard1685
fishing-pen1791
eelery1854
fishing-weir1870
crib1873
ark1883
kiddle1891
1661 N. Riding Rec. VI. 43 The milner of Brignall presented for that he do usually keep in the back beck a fish-lock.
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fish-louse n. a general name for crustaceans parasitic on fishes.
fish-man n. †(a) one who makes a meal of fish; (b) a fish hawker; (c) a fisherman; (d) a student of ichthyology.
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fisherc893
fisherman1526
fish-catcher1530
fish-man1540
fisher-swain1627
piscary1656
fish-carle1804
fisher-carl1870
piscicapturist1881
stationer1905
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fish or seafood
oyster-monger1321
rippier1384
fishera1400
pannierman1419
oyster sellera1425
fish-sellerc1440
pessonera1450
fishmonger1464
pikemonger1464
palingman1475
fish-man1540
jowter1550
mussel-mongera1625
flounder-man1700
periwinkler1837
fish-hawker1866
fish-salesman1868
piscitarian1880
fish-cadger1889
cod walloper1915
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > eating fish > fish-eater
fish-man1540
ichthyophagi1555
ichthyophagan1607
ichthyophagist1727
fish-eater1728
the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > fish > one who
ichthyologist1727
fish-man1856
1540 R. Sadler State Papers (1809) I. 48 I eat eggs and white meats, because I am an evil fishman.
a1584 Hist. Tom Thumb in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) II. 220 Tom..is caught by a Fishman.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) IV. 145 A fishman asleep on his panniers.
1805 Sporting Mag. 25 72 My fish-man of whom I constantly purchase.
1856 L. Agassiz in Bence Jones Life Faraday (1870) II. 378 The enthusiastic fish~man whom you met at Dr. Mantell's.
fish-manure n. a manure or fertilizer composed of fish.
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marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1788 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 330 The effect of the fish Manure w[hi]ch was put into the Corn hills in May last was visible with the Wheat.
1869 16th Ann. Rep. Mass. Board Agric. 1868 i. 105 Fish manures, the product of the oil-fisheries on our coast..sell at about forty-five dollars per ton.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of family Cetorhinidae (basking shark)
fish-mariner1605
sail-fish1605
pricker1701
sunfish1734
basking-shark1769
bone shark1802
hoe-mother1805
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 158 Thou Fish-Mariner [side note The Sayle-Fish], Thou Boat-Crab.
fish-marten n. (see quot.).
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1904 P. Fountain Great North-west x. 104 The tree-fox, or tree-cat, of the trappers. This is Mustela pennanti, often called the fish-marten.
fish-maw n. the sound or air-bladder of a fish.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of
sound1323
swimmer1579
wind-bladder1594
rete1615
swim1638
air bladder1675
swimming-bladder1713
air duct1744
red body1785
swim-bladder1837
fish-maw1840
fish-sound1879
maw1883
red gland1896
1840 H. Malcom Trav. 30/1 I tried sharks' fins, birds' nests, fish-maws.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fish-maws..are sent to China and used as glue, &c.
fish-meal n. dried fish ground to a meal.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish meal or flour
fish-meal1854
fish-flour1879
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 23 They ate it [fish] raw, dried, or ground down in whalebone mortars into fish-meal bread.
1967 Times 12 Apr. 28/4 Previously fishmeal was used mainly as a fertilizer, but now it is employed as an indispensable ingredient of animal feed.
fish-meter n. (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > food taster or tester > [noun] > specifically of fish
fish-meter1880
1880 Daily News 8 Nov. 2/5 The officers (fishmeters as they are called) appointed by the Court of the Fishmongers' Company seized..18 tons 7 cwt. of fish as unfit for human food.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-mint
water mintc1300
fish-mint1578
whirl-mint1713
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > mint or wild mint
minteOE
minteOE
horse-minta1300
crisp mint1578
fish-mint1578
brook mint1597
cross-mint1597
Mentha1731
corn-mint1796
crisped mint1829
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxiv. 245 The seconde wilde kynde..is called.. in English Fisshe Mynte, Brooke Mynte.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 555 Water Mint, Fish Mint, Brooke Mint, and Horse Mint.
fish-moth n. = silver-fish n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > member of genus Lepisma (silver-fish)
sugar-mite1796
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
slicker1902
fish insect1905
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Thysanura > machilis maritina (bristle tail)
bristletail1706
silver-fish1855
fish-moth1859
fish insect1905
1859 R. J. Mann Colony of Natal viii. 171 It is one of nature's beneficent compensations that the fish-moth is devoid of wings.
1942 E. O. Essig College Entomol. v. 70 The silver fish moth, Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, is now almost cosmopolitan in distribution, being known in North America, Europe, China, Japan, and the Hawaiian Islands.
fish-net n. used attributively of an open-meshed fabric or garment.
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1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 57 Fish-net fringe..can be made of écru cord..in ordinary fish-net stitch, in large meshes.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 238/2 Hot Weather Specialities... Men's Fish Net Undershirts..with short sleeves.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise x. 182 My dear! and got up regardless..fish-net stockings and all.
fish-oil n. oil obtained from fishes and marine animals, spec. cod-liver oil and whale oil.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > fish oil
fish-oil1803
1803 Ann. 7th Congr. 2 Sess. 349 It appears that Great Britain..has secured effectually the carrying..of our fish-oil, tobacco, pot and pearl ashes.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 188 Whale oil, known under the name of Fish oil, is obtained from the Common Greenland Whale.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Nov. 2/2 The duty-free admission into the States of..fish-oils.
fish-owl n. an eared fishing owl, of the genus Ketupa, with rough feet.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > genus Ketupa (fish-owl)
fish-owl1867
fishing owl1934
1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 114 We were startled one night by the unpleasant laugh of the fish-owl (Ketupa ceylonensis).
fish paper n. (a) paper on which cooked fish is laid; (b) (see quot. 1924).
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > paper to lay fish on
fish paper1868
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > paper as electrical insulator
fish paper1868
presspahn1904
Micarta1912
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [noun] > board used as insulation
fish paper1868
1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 98/2 Slide it [sc. the turbot] gently on to a hot dish, on which a folded damask napkin or ornamental fish paper has been placed.
1924 C. J. West Class. & Def. Paper 38 Fish paper, a term applied to a chemically treated board; used..as insulation in building dynamos and motors.
1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 3/5 Always serve fried fish as hot as possible, dish it on a fish paper, [etc.].
fish-pass n. = fish-way n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish passage or ladder
salmon leapa1387
fish-way1845
fish-pass1861
pass1861
fish-ladder1865
salmon ladder1867
salmon pass1867
zigzaga1877
1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §23 Any Proprietor of a Fishery with the written Consent of the Home Office may attach to every Dam..a Fish Pass, of such Form and Dimensions as the Home Office may approve.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §17 No person shall..wilfully scare or hinder salmon from passing through any fish pass.
1885 G. C. Bompas Life F. Buckland ix. 189 Varying weirs required different forms of fish-pass.
1994 Waterways World May 39/1 Impoundment of the river will then start while work continues on other facilities, such as the canoe slalom , navigation lock and fish pass.
fish paste n. = paste n. 5.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread
paste1817
spread1866
fish paste1920
cheese spread1921
sandwich spreadc1938
Marmite1966
the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > fish paste
alec?1527
caviar1591
bottarga1598
anchovy butter1806
paste1817
tamarind-fish1858
beluga1883
taramosalata1910
fish paste1920
sevruga1959
surimi1973
1920 Peace Handbks. (Foreign Office) lxii. 55 Sturgeon..are made into fish-pastes for local consumption.
1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 31 A spoon and a bit of fishpaste.
1960 A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition & Food Technol. 50/1 Fish paste legally must contain not less than 70% fish.
fish-pearl n. an artificial pearl (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun] > artificial pearl
pearlc1375
Welsh pearl1681
Roman pearl1792
fish-pearl1853
Tecla1908
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 361 In Saxony, a cheap but inferior quality [of pearls] is manufactured..They are known by the name of German fish pearls.
fish-plate n. the perforated draining plate of a fish-kettle.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > cauldron or kettle > types of > draining plate in fish-kettle
fish-plate1747
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 88 When the Water boils, lay the Turbutt on a Fish-plate.
fish-poison n. a name given to various plants which have an intoxicating effect upon fish, causing them to float helplessly on the surface of the water.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > unidentified or unspecified plant
oxbane1585
Samnitis1590
rot-grass1631
burn-cow1658
fish-poison1802
sheep-rot1808
vomit-grass1808
1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 67 Fish poison, horse chesnut, or buck's eye. (Æsculus Pavia.)
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 384 Serjania triternata is also employed as a fish poison.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Fish-poison, Lepidium Piscidium. Jamaica, Piscidia Erythrina.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 46/2 Fish-poison-plant.
fish pole n. U.S. a pole used as a fishing-rod.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun]
angle-rodc1450
rodc1450
angling rod1510
gada1535
fishing-rod1552
angling wand1565
wand1565
pole1577
fishing-pole1791
fish pole1834
fishing-wand1889
1834 Visit to Texas ix. 88 We touched [a flame] to a few of the tall canes, at this season as dry as fish poles.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer xiv. 99 Deerslayer..played with the end of a fish-pole in the water.
1957 R. Ruark Old Man & Boy 261 ‘Just the cast net and some fish poles, Lottie,’ the old man said sweet as pie.
fish-pomace n. the refuse of fish after the oil has been expressed, used as a fertilizer.
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1864 Agric. Maine IX. 43 Fish pomace, or the residuum of herring after the oil is pressed out, is greedily eaten by sheep, swine and fowl.
fish-pot n. a wicker basket for catching fish, esp. eels, also crabs, lobsters, etc.
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bow-neta1000
leapc1000
weel1256
willow1385
pichea1398
cruive14..
creel1457
coop1469
butt1533
hive1533
wilger1542
fish-pota1555
pota1555
loup1581
leap weel1601
willy1602
putt1610
leap-head1611
weir1611
putcher1781
fish-coop1803
fishing box1861
crib1873
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 336 That fish-pot or net in the which both good and naughty fishes be contained.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 28 They place Fish-pots between the Rocks.
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 430 It was brought to him alive, having been knocked off a fish-pot-buoy.
fish-potter n. one who uses or has charge of fish-pots.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using other methods
poundmanc1307
Petera1343
petermanc1400
fish-potter1819
sniggler1840
snatcher1878
ice-fisherman1879
guddler1880
pot fisher1890
pot fisherman1890
1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 183 The fish-potters being unanimously of opinion that this is not the season.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > fishing-ground
fishinga1599
piscarya1625
fishing-ground1641
fishery1699
fish-range1699
mark1965
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 12 A little to the East of this River is a Fish-Range... Here are Poles to hang their Nets on, and Barbecues to dry their Fish.
fish-room n. (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment > for provisions > specific
bread roomc1610
fish-room1815
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Fish-Room..that place between the after-hold and the spirit-room.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 118 Fish-room, a place parted off in the after-hold..It was formerly used for stowing the salt-fish to be consumed on board.
fish-sauce n. sauce made to be eaten with fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > sauces for fish
Dutch sauce1573
ramolade1702
fish-sauce1728
Hollandaise sauce1841
tartar sauce1855
Holland sauce1877
Marie Rose1920
meunière sauce1984
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 70 English katchop..is good to put into Fish Sauce.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo viii. 5 I would recommend ‘The curious in fish sauce’..to bid their cook..buy..Ketchup.
fish sausage n. a sausage made with fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage
franchemyle1381
herbelade?c1390
haggisc1400
black puddinga1450
blood puddingc1450
bloodinga1500
liveringa1500
haggis pudding1545
white pudding1578
swine's pudding1579
hog's pudding1583
Bolognian sausage1596
bloodling1598
andouille1605
andouillet1611
cervelat1613
mortadella1613
polony1654
blacking1674
hacking1674
whiting1674
Oxford sausagec1700
saucisson1772
German sausage1773
saveloy1784
blood sausage1799
white hawse1819
liver sausage1820
black pot1825
chipolata1830
Bologna sausage1833
butifarra1836
mettwurst1836
Cambridge sausage1840
boudin1845
chorizo1846
German1847
liverwurst1852
salami1852
station-Jack1853
leberwurst1855
wurst1855
blutwurst1856
bag of mystery1864
Vienna sausage1865
summer sausage1874
wienerwurst1875
mealy pudding1880
whitepot1880
wiener1880
erbswurst1885
pepperoni1888
mystery bag1889
red-hot1890
weenie1891
hot dog1892
frankfurter1894
sav?1894
Coney Island1895
coney1902
garlic sausage1905
boloney1907
kishke1907
drisheen1910
bratwurst1911
banger1919
cocktail sausage1927
boerewors1930
soy sausage1933
thuringer1933
frank1936
fish sausage1937
knackwurst1939
foot-long1941
starver1941
soya sausage1943
soysage1943
soya link1944
brat1949
Vienna1952
kielbasa1953
Coney dog1954
tube steak1963
Weisswurst1963
Cumberland sausage1966
merguez1966
tripe sausage1966
schinkenwurst1967
boerie1981
'nduja1996
1937 N.Y. Times 16 Mar. 15/2 In Frankfort, the hot dog's home town,..fish sausage had been introduced on the market.
1965 Punch 12 May 682/1 Technology Minister Frank Cousins gave the Commons an interim report on current progress towards the development of the fish sausage.
1969 N. W. Pirie Food Resources vii. 163 Also in Japan, 150,000 tons of fish sausage are eaten annually though it was almost unknown a few years ago.
fish-scrap n. fish refuse, used as a fertilizer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1881 N.Y. Times in G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes (1888) 112 These smacks are engaged..for the oil-rendering and fish-scrap works on Barren Island.
fish-slice n. a fish-carving knife; also, an implement used by cooks for turning fish in the pan.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > slice
slice1459
egg-slice1747
fish-slice1747
trowel1773
cake slice1813
fish-trowel1855
trowel-slicer1862
palette knife1889
cake server?1891
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery v. 60 Have your Fish-slice ready.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield lxi. 602 We pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices..and sugar-tongs.
1886 Punch 20 Nov. 252/2 The unavoidable absence of the fish-slice.
fish-slide n. ‘a fish-trap for shallow rivers and low waterfalls: used in the southern United States’ ( Cent. Dict.).
fish-sound n. the swimming bladder of a fish.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of
sound1323
swimmer1579
wind-bladder1594
rete1615
swim1638
air bladder1675
swimming-bladder1713
air duct1744
red body1785
swim-bladder1837
fish-maw1840
fish-sound1879
maw1883
red gland1896
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 133/1 Gelatin-yielding substances..comprising..bladders and fish sounds.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
fish-poolc950
fish-housec1000
viverc1330
stew1387
piscinaa1398
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trunk1440
moat1463
stagnec1470
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fish-stew1552
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keep1617
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vivarya1634
nursery1772
preserve1849
whalerya1880
fish tank1957
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fishe..stewe, icthyotrophia.
1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 75 A proposal to revive the fish stews or ponds which in bygone times were so plentiful in this country.
fish stick n. (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) North American = fish finger n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > drying frame or stick
stage1535
hake1609
flake1623
fish-flake1767
fishing-flake1861
fish stick1875
1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherman 57 A fish-stick consists generally of a young holly bush deprived of its bark, and the branches left about a foot in length at bottom, diminishing to six inches at the top, the fish being thrust on through a hole in the back.
1953 Time 12 Oct. 103 Birds Eye brought out fish sticks (fresh fish coated with a special batter, breaded, fried, packed and then frozen).
1955 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 6 Apr. 25/2 The newly developed frozen fish fillets known as fish sticks.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > shop equipment of butchers or fishmongers
shop cloth1501
fish-stone1822
trencher1903
1822 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 379 The erection of such a number of Fish Stones in Derby Square..as they may think proper for the accommodation of the neighbourhood.
fish-story n. an incredible tale or ‘yarn’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind
a tale (also gest, song, etc.) of Robin Hoodc1400
tale of a tub1532
Canterbury tale or story?a1550
romanza1622
romance1638
onea1642
Robin Hood tale1653
cock-and-bull story1670
stretcher1674
whid1794
fish-story1819
snake story1826
screamer1831
twister1834
ráiméis1835
Munchausen1840
skyscraper1840
Munchausenism1848
cock1851
snake yarn1891
furphy1916
fanny1930
the old ackamarackus1933
windy1933
1819 St. Louis Enquirer 8 Dec. A fish story!.. In consequence of the shoals of white-fish which occupied and choaked the channel between Bois Blanc Island and Amherstburgh, the steamboat could not pass.
1823 Missouri Intelligencer 28 Jan. That's ‘a fish story’, but mine's a true one.
1867 Harper's Mag. July 183/1 A friend who does not tell fish stories, says he has seen them [sc. herring] in such schools that he could not row his boat through them.
1887 C. F. Holder Living Lights 97 Exaggerations are often termed ‘fish-stories’, for the reason perhaps that improbable tales are related concerning the denizens of the sea.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
fish-poolc950
fish-housec1000
viverc1330
stew1387
piscinaa1398
piscinea1400
fishpondc1440
trunk1440
moat1463
stagnec1470
servatorya1475
viviera1500
fish-stew1552
vivarium1600
shut1605
fish-stove1615
keep1617
estang1628
vivarya1634
nursery1772
preserve1849
whalerya1880
fish tank1957
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey iv. 255 The fish-stoues by him hewne out of the rocke, and built.
fish-strainer n. (a) ‘a metal cullender with handles for taking fish from a boiler; (b) an earthenware slab with holes, placed at the bottom of a dish to drain the water from cooked fish’ (Simmonds).
fish supper n. a supper meal with fish as the main course; spec. (esp. Scottish), a meal of fish and chips bought from a take-away restaurant.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun]
gyngawdry?c1390
salomenec1430
sorréc1430
tavorsayc1450
spitchcock1601
minnow tansy1655
kedgeree1662
pepperpot1698
matelote1723
water-souchy1726
pitchcock1739
flibrigo1762
twice-laid1777
ngapi1800
a kettle of fish1823
brandade1825
fish supper1829
truite au bleu1834
sole (à la) Colbert1846
bouillabaisse1855
fish and chips1876
hákarl1879
sashimi1880
timbale1880
gefilte fish1892
stamp and go1893
truite bleue1907
waterzooi1915
accra1919
Bismarck herring1931
gravlax1935
goujon1940
coddie1941
seviche1951
tuna salad1953
crabstick1956
zarzuela1956
sole Véronique1960
fish finger1962
moqueca1980
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 179 Short and sweet to the Sheenies—better than a prime fish supper to their palates; their blunt had been laid out right.
1974 News & Press (Darlington, S. Carolina) 25 Apr. 1/1 The Darlington Handicapped Chapter's fried fish supper will be held Friday night.
1985 Times 5 Nov. 15/4 [Sc. correspondent] Nor did he treat himself to a fish supper at my expense.
fish tank n. a tank to hold live (esp. ornamental) fish, an aquarium.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
fish-poolc950
fish-housec1000
viverc1330
stew1387
piscinaa1398
piscinea1400
fishpondc1440
trunk1440
moat1463
stagnec1470
servatorya1475
viviera1500
fish-stew1552
vivarium1600
shut1605
fish-stove1615
keep1617
estang1628
vivarya1634
nursery1772
preserve1849
whalerya1880
fish tank1957
1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 159/2 Most of these [temperate-water] fishes..are not good candidates for domestic fish tanks.
1984 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. b3/5 A Manhattan man and his wife were moving their daughter's 10-gallon fish tank..when it suddenly slipped from their hands and smashed.
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fish-thistles n. the Chamæpeuce casabonæ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1884).
fish-tiger n. a bird that preys upon fish.
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that eats specific things
worm-fowlc1381
seed fowlc1500
thistle-eater1562
chipper1668
honeyeater1688
wheat-bird1747
falcon-fisher1759
worm-eater1760
bone-breaker1787
seed eater1820
carrion-bird1839
seed feeder1853
fish-tiger1879
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia i. 20 The pied fish-tiger hung above the pool.
fish-tongue n. ‘an instrument sometimes used for the removal of the wisdom-teeth: so named from its shape’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1884).
fish-torpedo n. a torpedo resembling a fish in shape and with an automatic swimming action.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo
torpedo1776
Whitehead1872
fish-torpedo1878
mouldy1916
fish1925
torp1929
pickle1931
kipper1953
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 236 The Shah..sent a fish-torpedo against the Huascar.
fish-trowel n. a fish-carver in the shape of a trowel.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > slice
slice1459
egg-slice1747
fish-slice1747
trowel1773
cake slice1813
fish-trowel1855
trowel-slicer1862
palette knife1889
cake server?1891
1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Fish-trowel.
fish-ward n. U.S. = fish-warden n.
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1870 Game Laws N.H. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 166 All nets..may be seized by any fish ward.
fish-warden n. U.S. ‘an officer who has jurisdiction over the fisheries of any particular locality’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > wardens
fish-warden1826
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > official
fish-warden1826
warden1835
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > warden > of fisheries
fish-warden1826
1826 C. Cushing Hist. Newburyport 118 Fishwardens. Messrs. Offin Boardman, [etc.]
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. (Fisheries Exhib.) 66 To enforce these laws would, however, render necessary a large force of fish-wardens.
fish-way n. an arrangement for enabling fish to ascend a fall or dam.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish passage or ladder
salmon leapa1387
fish-way1845
fish-pass1861
pass1861
fish-ladder1865
salmon ladder1867
salmon pass1867
zigzaga1877
1845 Mass. Acts. & Resolves 1843–5 434 Whenever a fishway shall be constructed..all former laws relating to fishways at said dam shall be repealed.
1870 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 5 671 No mill is..prejudiced by the making..of a fishway in the dam.
fish-weir n. †(a) a draught of fishes; (b) = fishgarth n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth
weir839
fish-weirc1000
yair1178
fishgarth1454
eel-bed1483
water frith1584
frith1602
garth1609
fish-lock1661
crawl1682
fish-yard1685
fishing-pen1791
eelery1854
fishing-weir1870
crib1873
ark1883
kiddle1891
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) v 4 Lætað eowre nett on þone fisc-wer.
a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 Fiscwer and mylne macian.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 423 Tweye grete fische werys.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 376/1 Fish-weirs along the rocks.
fish-wood n. (a) (see quot.); (b) ‘the strawberry bush, Euonymus americanus’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > other methods of fishing
tickling1616
twitchelling1689
yair-fishing1796
ice-fishing1842
foul-hooking1860
pointing1860
fish-wood1861
muddying1877
snatching1878
roll casting1897
jack fishing1899
cod jigging1921
free spooling1937
noodling1937
electrofishing1950
shocker1953
ghost fishing1963
catch-and-release1973
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > wood for intoxicating fish
fish-wood1861
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 73 The celebrated fish-wood (Piscidia erythrina) used for the purpose of intoxicating fish.
fish-worker n. ‘a fishculturist’ ( Cent. Dict.).
fish-working n. ‘fish-culture’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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fish-works n. (a) ‘the appliances and contrivances used in fish-culture; (b) a place where the products of the fisheries are utilized; a fish-factory’ ( Cent. Dict.).
fish-worm n. U.S. = earthworm n. 1; cf. worm n. 8b.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Oligochaeta > family Lumbricidae > member of (earthworm)
angletwitcheOE
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wormc1400
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mad1586
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ground-worm1599
earth-mad1601
yellowtail1608
twatchel1661
rainworm1731
fish-worm1854
mudworm1871
intraclitellian1888
Morrenian1890
terricole1890
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 223 I catch shiners with fish-worms.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 iv. 15/2 The term fishworm has a wide distribution throughout New England.
1971 Daily Hampshire Gaz. (Northampton, Mass.) 27 Aug. 1 Billy Middleton..was planning on going fishing when he had the chance to dangle a long fat fishworm in front of Sandra Dobbs.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth
weir839
fish-weirc1000
yair1178
fishgarth1454
eel-bed1483
water frith1584
frith1602
garth1609
fish-lock1661
crawl1682
fish-yard1685
fishing-pen1791
eelery1854
fishing-weir1870
crib1873
ark1883
kiddle1891
1685 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 287 Allowing Mr. Maior..all the fish taken in ye fish yards in one tide.
1789 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) II. 241 To destroy the Fish Yards now set upon the..river Mersey.
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there are (plenty) more fish in the sea and variants: there will be many more (romantic) opportunities in the future (used chiefly to console someone disappointed in love).
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1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 126 In the mayne sea theres good stoare of fishe, And in delicate gardens and in gourgeous bowers, Theres allwayes greate varietye of desirable flowers.]
1859 J. W. De Forest Seacliff xxlii. 333 Bait your hook again, and heave it somewhere else. There are plenty of other fish in the sea just as fine as this one.
a1893 H. C. De Mille & D. Belasco Lord Chumley i, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XVII. 143 Lord C. But you're quite right, Lady Adeline; I have been crossed in love. Lady A... Never mind, there are more fish in the sea.
1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget xx. 142 Nil desperandum, Mr. Crimble. And you know what they say about fish in the sea.
1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder ix. 116 ‘He didn't die of a broken heart, that's for sure, so what did he do about it?’ ‘He gets himself another woman. He wasn't particular. “Plenty more fish in the sea,” he says.’
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fish and chip van n. British = chip van n. at chip n.1 Additions.
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1943 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. 52/8 She converted an old car into a fish and chip van which toured the villages [of Suffolk] with great success.
1953 Times 20 Nov. 2/6 They denied that he was a ‘stall-holder’ by virtue of his ownership of the fish and chip van.
2001 R. Barker Summertime 113 Their van has a side window, like a fish and chip van.
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fish-net n. (in plural) open-meshed stockings or tights.
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1967 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 13 Sept. 18 (advt.) With hemlines soaring to new heights, Casual Hose are ‘switched-on’ as never before! Choose all the very latest including Fishnets, Lace,..Opaques and many more.
2002 E. White Fast Girls x. 189 Madeline and Margaret are denizens of the Goth subculture—fans of Nine Inch Nails, Anne Rice novels, dressing in corsets and fishnets.
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fish-wrap adj. and n. North American colloquial (depreciative) (a) adj. of, relating to, or designating a low-quality publication, esp. a newspaper; (b) n. ephemeral printed matter which lacks (lasting) worth (considered as useful only for wrapping fish).
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1964 S. Martinelli Let. 5 Aug. in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing (2001) 306 Wax Wrath [i.e. Kenneth Rexroth] knows all this too—and often employs it in his fish-wrap chats—as this reader most certainly understands.
1966 Independent (Long Beach, Calif.) 28 Feb. 1/6 (heading) Fish-wrap ages nearly as fast as fish. A new art magazine..will participate in the ‘autodestruction’ school by treating the pages..with a chemical ‘so that copies will disintegrate..in about four weeks’.
1991 M. Atwood Wilderness Tips 223 A year from now it'll all be fish-wrap.
2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 25 Dec. 114/3 Quoyle installs himself at the local fish-wrap newspaper.
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fish wrapper n. North American colloquial (depreciative) a newspaper (cf. fish-wrap adj. and n. at Additions).
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1910 C. E. Montague Hind Let Loose i. 11 ‘The fish-wrapper’, a title exchanged..by two standard-bearers of our culture in the press of the Far East.
1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 9 Jan. 21/1 The story of those Hawaiian hula dancers—a publicity stunt as flagrant as it proved illegal—was announced exclusively in his fish-wrapper!
2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 16 May a26/2 Blair wasn't working for just any old fish wrapper but for the most venerated newspaper in the country.
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fish and brewis n. Newfoundland a dish of salted cod cooked with hard bread (cf. brewis n. 2).
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1907 N. Duncan Cruise of Shining Light ix. 90 They’re at table, lad, with fish an' brewis sot out.
1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 23 ‘Fish and brewis?’ Uncle Jasper's tone was reverent. ‘And scruncheons?’
1992 B. Morgan Random Passage xi. 139 Beside a big pot of fish and brewis are platters of trout and salmon, baked sea bird stuffed with breadcrumbs and savory.
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fish ball n. (in East and South-East Asian cookery) a small ball made mainly of minced fish and flour, often served with noodles or as part of a soup, or sold deep-fried and skewered from street stalls.
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1959 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. 30/1 A rich, delectable broth filled with tender, crisp vegetables and marble-sized fish balls with a gossamer lightness.
1985 R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 29 Fish balls, raw or fried..are available from Chinese grocers.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 37/2 Highlights include deep-fried fishballs.
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fish camp n. North American a seasonal camp where fish are caught and smoked, chiefly associated with North American Indian peoples of northern and Arctic regions.
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1849 A. Ross Adventures First Settlers Oregon or Columbia River xx. 313 Scenes at the fish camp.
1855 A. Ross Fur Hunters of Far West II. xii. 103 The Snakes are not a lazy people; their camp was, however, very dirty, as all fish camps are.
1899 Forest & Stream 25 Mar. 222/1 We saw nothing whatever to indicate that white men had ever preceded us. There were, however, occasional deserted fish camps of the Indians.
1941 G. de Poncins & L. Galantière Kabloona (1942) i. ii. 46 Gibson..had let me know that there was a fish-camp thirty miles away where I might make my first acquaintance with the Eskimo world.
2003 Canad. Geographic Trav. & Adventure Spring–Summer 23/2 You can also visit a fish camp to learn about smoking and drying sigaq.
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fishn.2
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ 1. Nautical. ‘A long piece of hard wood, convex on one side and concave on the other’ (Adm. Smyth), used to strengthen a mast or yard; a fish-piece.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > splint
spelkc1000
splintc1400
shindle1598
splinter1598
junk1617
fish1666
starch bandage1838
starch splint1843
pistol-splint1860
Balkan splint1916
gutter-splint1919
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > piece of wood to strengthen
fish1666
fetch1670
fish-front1815
fish-piece1867
1666 London Gaz. No. 59/3 We put hard hands on Jury Masts and Fishes.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 79 Lash the Fish on to the Mast.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 367 His fore-mast was broken asunder..and was only kept together by the fishes which had been formerly clapt upon it.
1752 Chalmers in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 367 The Spikes, that nail the Fish of the Mainmast.
1854 G. B. Richardson Univ. Code v. 2143 Can you let me have a fish for my mast?
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 73 One fore and one aft fish dowelled and bolted to spindle and side trees.
2. A flat plate of iron, wood, etc. laid upon a beam, rail, etc., or across a joint, to protect or strengthen it; in railway construction = fish-plate n. at Compounds.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strip or plate of wood or metal
hollowc897
strop1573
strap1588
shin1747
strap iron1833
stirrup-iron1838
fish1847
fish-bar1872
welt1874
mirror plate1940
1847 Adams & Richardson Specif. Patent 11,715 2 To connect the two iron rails together we use wood or iron fishes.
1875 R. F. Martin tr. J. Havrez On Recent Improvem. Winding Machinery 4 Rods..tied together by oak fishes of the same scantling as the rods.
1875–6 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 46 202 The original road had been laid with fishes 16 inches long.
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attributive and in other combinations.
fish-bar n. (see quots.).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strip or plate of wood or metal
hollowc897
strop1573
strap1588
shin1747
strap iron1833
stirrup-iron1838
fish1847
fish-bar1872
welt1874
mirror plate1940
1872 W. S. Huntington Road-master's Assistant (ed. 2) 27 Expansion..is supposed to have been provided for at the rolling-mill, by elongating the bolt-hole both in the rail and fish-bar.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 872/1 Fish-bar, the splice bar which breaks the joint of two meeting objects, as of railroad rails or scarfed timber.
fish-beam n. (see quots.).
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1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) A ‘fish beam’ is a composite beam, where an iron plate is sandwiched between two wood beams.
fish-bolt n. (see quots.).
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1875 J. W. Barry Railway Appliances (1890) 61 The nuts of the fish-bolts are apt to shake loose with the jar of passing trains.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Fish-bolt, a bolt employed for fastening fish plates and rails together.
fish-front n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > piece of wood to strengthen
fish1666
fetch1670
fish-front1815
fish-piece1867
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Fish-Front, or Paunch, is a long piece of oak or fir timber, convex on one side, and concave on the other, used to strengthen the lower masts or yards, when they are sprung.
fish-hoop n. (see quots.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > piece of wood to strengthen > hoop securing
fish-hoop1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 24 At the lower end of the fish is driven on a hoop, called a fish-hoop, which is beat close to the sides of the mast.
fish-joint n. a joint or splice made with fish-plates (also fish-plate joint).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
1849 J. Samuel in Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 8 265 A number of these fish joints had been laid down.
1868 Daily News 5 Nov. The almost universal adoption of the new ‘fish-joint rail’.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) A ‘fish joint’ is a joint made by bolting or riveting a plate on each side near the ends.
fish-joint v.
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1855 Dempsey Pract. Railw. Engineer (ed. 4) 265 A portion only of the lines of this kingdom being as yet fish-jointed..It is obvious that with the same rail a fish-jointed road is much stronger.
fish-jointed adj.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [adjective] > types of track or rail
slow1799
fast1814
fish-jointed1855
prismoidal1874
broad-gauged1881
monorail1885
unballasted1887
sleepered1894
monoline1902
wide gauge1982
1855 Dempsey Pract. Railw. Engineer (ed. 4) 265 It is obvious that with the same rail a fish-jointed road is much stronger.
fish-jointing n.
ΚΠ
1855 Dempsey Pract. Railw. Engineer (ed. 4) 267 Mr. Ashcroft has accomplished the fish-jointing of 150 miles of line without accident.
fish-paunch n. = sense 1.
ΚΠ
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Fish-Front, or Paunch, is a long piece of oak or fir timber, convex on one side, and concave on the other, used to strengthen the lower masts or yards, when they are sprung.
fish-piece n. = 1, 2 above.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > piece of wood to strengthen
fish1666
fetch1670
fish-front1815
fish-piece1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Fish-piece.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding vi. 102 The fish pieces or covering plates.
fish-plate n. one of two plates bolted together through the ends of two rails on either side of their meeting-point to cover and strengthen the joint.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
1855 Dempsey Pract. Railw. Engineer 268 The chairs are cast so that one side forms a fish-plate.
1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 42 In 1847 Mr. Bridges Adams introduced the suspended joint with fish plates.
1889 Life of Vignoles xiii. 183 Vignoles always claimed to have been one of the earliest to introduce the fish-plate joint.
fish-plating n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails
string-piece1789
carriage1816
chair1816
pedestal1816
surface plate1822
web1835
frog1837
switch-bar1837
snake-head1845
fish1847
fish-joint1849
plate nail1849
fishing-key1852
fish-plate1855
joint-chair1856
rail chair1864
railhead1868
lead1871
fish-bar1872
splice-piece1875
fish-plating1881
splice-jointa1884
splice-bar1894
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §437 An exemplification of this fish-joint or fish-plating is to be seen on any railway.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fishn.3
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ A small flat piece of bone or ivory used instead of money or for keeping account in games of chance; sometimes made in the form of a fish.Commonly interpreted as identical with fish n.1; hence the collective singular is used for plural.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > counter
chip1580
tanto1646
fish1728
plaque1904
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. i. 6 I am now going to a Party at Quadrille..to piddle with a little of it [money], at poor two Guineas a Fish.
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. xviii. 230 She was just going to call for the cards and fishes.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide viii. ii. 52 Industrious Creatures! that make it a Rule To secure half the Fish while they manage the Pool.
1816 Sporting Mag. 47 297 A notorious gamester..at a game of loo, accumulated a large quantity of fish.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 91 Mother-o'-pearl fish and counters.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 9 A penny a fish will be found sufficiently high play.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fishn.4
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ 1. An act of fishing. colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun]
visseþ1297
fishinga1400
piscation1620
riviationa1676
take1833
piscicapture1863
fish1880
1880 Scribner's Monthly 20 542/2 I will go find Tim..and have a fish.
2.
a. The purchase used in ‘fishing’ or raising the flukes of an anchor to the gunwale.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > for raising flukes to gunwale
fish-hook1627
fish1825
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 51 The tricing Fish the careful Gunners hook, No time is lost, it firmly grasps the Fluke.
b. (See quot. 1892.)
ΚΠ
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Fish, a tool used for bringing up a bore rod or pump valve.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations. The noun in sense 2, or the verb-stem, occurs in various technical terms (chiefly Nautical). Also fish-hook n. 2.† fish-rope n. Obsolete = fish-fall n.
fish-back n. a rope attached to the hook of the fish-block, and used to assist in ‘fishing’ the anchor.
ΚΠ
1862 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 2) 74 Fish back, from the forecastle, and secured to the back of the fish hook.
fish-block n. the block of a fish-tackle.
ΚΠ
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 10 The Dauid is a short peece of timber, at the end whereof..they hang a blocke in a strap called the Fish-block, by which they hale vp the flook of the Anchor to the Ships bow.
fish-davit n. a davit for fishing the anchor.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > davit > for anchor
fish-davit1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 120 The..fish-davit [was] rigged out.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 93 Iron..fish davits are now fitted to nearly all ships.
fish-fall n. the tackle depending from the fish-davit.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > for raising flukes to gunwale > fall of
fish-rope1630
fish-fall1862
1862 G. S. Nares Seamanship 74 It [the fish martingale] keeps the davit from topping up as the fish fall is hauled taut.
fish-head n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1842 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 171 The ‘fish-head’ for drawing a ‘drowned clack.’
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 109 Fish-head, an apparatus for withdrawing the clacks of pumps through the column.
fish-martingale n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1862 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 2) 74 Fish martingale, a large jigger, the double block secured to one of the bolts in the davit head, the single block hooked down to a bolt in the ship's side.
fish-pendant n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Fish Pendant hangs at the end of the Davit.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 234 The upper end [of the fish-davit] being properly secured by a tackle from the mast-head; to which end is hung a large block, and through it a strong rope is rove, called the fish-pendant.
ΚΠ
1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 81/1 Cables, hawsers, Fish and Cattrope..Halliers, Ropeyarns..were all of rare stuffes of great price.
fish-tackle n. that used for fishing the anchor.
ΚΠ
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 105 Fish-tackle.
fish wire n. a stiff wire, usually looped at the end, used for pulling or ‘fishing’ wires through conduits, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > wire for pulling
fish wire1907
fish tape1958
1907 W. S. Ibbetson Electr. Wiring x. 186 If the fish wires are not put through the whole of the tubing, it is certainly better to put them at the difficult parts round bends, etc.
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1820/2 A fish tape or wire, a tempered steel wire of rectangular cross-section, is pushed through the conduit until its end appears at the farther end. A draw line is then attached to it and..the line is drawn through the conduit.
fish tape n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > wire for pulling
fish wire1907
fish tape1958
1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1820/2 A fish tape or wire, a tempered steel wire of rectangular cross-section, is pushed through the conduit until its end appears at the farther end.
Draft additions 1993
c. An object which has been accidentally left or dropped down the bore-hole of an oil-well, and is hindering further drilling. Cf. fish v.1 Additions b and fishing job n. at fishing n.1 Additions. Originally U.S.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > object hindering further drilling
fish1931
1931 H. C. George Oil Well Completion & Operation iv. 214 Jarring frequently sets the slips so tightly against the lost tool that the teeth on the slip are partly buried in the metal of the ‘fish’.
1937 W. F. Cloud Petroleum Production x. 397 If the ‘fish’ is covered with cavings, the tool usually can be ‘washed’ into the upper end of the last pipe.
1956 Petroleum Engineer Apr. b56/1 After the fish is caught and freed, the rotary table should be locked.
1978 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 20 Mar. 195/1 After several attempts to sidetrack a fish at total depth, a decision was made to test rather continuous shows from several zones.
1987 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 30 Mar. 32/2 Cement was pumped on top of the fish before drilling resumed in the sidetracked hole.
Draft additions June 2015
Cards. A simple card game, usually played by or with children, in which each player in turn asks an opponent for cards of a particular rank, and is told to ‘go fish’ from the undealt deck if the opponent does not have the cards requested; = go fish n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun]
card game1611
hand-ruff1611
round1712
fish1950
1950 Neurotica 1 11 The names of other card-games reflect..this undercurrent of violence. Consider..draw poker (also called ‘guts’),..fish, go fish, go boom.
1954 K. Cowin Bushveld, Bananas & Bounty viii. 111 Some evenings were spent in interminable sessions at a mysterious card game called Fish, the rules of which were changed at least twice nightly.
1973 J. O'Keefe Chamber Piece in A. H. Ballet Playwrights for Tomorrow II. 188 Peter. Let's play fish. Tom. You mean, ‘Go Fish.’ Peter. That's right. You know the game?
2013 R. B. Sherman Moose 202 Aunt May and I played a card game called ‘Fish’... The cards were old and sticky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fishv.1
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ I. intransitive.
1.
a. To catch or try to catch fish; to use nets or other apparatus for taking fish. Const. †after, for.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish [verb (intransitive)]
fishc888
to go (also Middle English wade) a-fishing1297
to wet one's line1653
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxii. §3 Ðonne ge fiscian willaþ.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13297 To fisskenn affterr fisskess.
a1300 K. Horn 1136 Ihc am a fissere, Wel feor icome bi este For fissen at þi feste.
c1305 St. Andrew 3 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 98 As hi fischede aday Bi þe se oure louerd com.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 7 Pipen he koude, and fisshe, and nettes beete.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 163/1 Fyschyn, piscor.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiv He hath well fisht and caught a frog.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 107 Their way of fishing alters with the season.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 12 I beheld some People Fishing with long Angling Rods.
1863 W. F. Campbell & J. F. Campbell Life in Normandy I. 283 They fish for them very much in the same manner.
b. figurative (with reference to Mark i. 17).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > convince, be convincing [verb (intransitive)]
fish1413
persuade1535
society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > evangelize [verb (intransitive)]
evangelize1382
fish1413
gospel1867
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. xiv. 80 These tonges were taken them as for theyr pryncipal Instrument for to fysshen with.
1552 H. Latimer Serm. (1562) vii. 125 b Their special callyng is to fishe, to preache the worde of God.
c. to fish in troubled waters: figurative to take advantage of disturbance or trouble to gain one's end.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > take advantage of trouble
to fish in troubled waters1569
to stir shit1971
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 102 Their perswasions whiche alwayes desyre your vnquietnesse, whereby they may the better fishe in the water when it is troubled.
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 43 They..fare full and fatt by Fishing in troubled waters.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 276 You delight to fish in troubled waters.
1797 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) Though drunk as fish our rulers be, The thing sure little matters; Only it forces you and me To fish in troubled waters.
2. To search by dredging, diving, or other means for something that is in or under water, e.g. sunken treasure, pearls, coral, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > search for something under water
fish1654
1654 F. W. Observ. in Fulke's Meteors (new ed.) 166 Gold..found in Waters and Rivers is fished for, and is in form of little Grains.
1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 129 The..grant for fishing for silver at a wreck in the West Indies.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 134 A very rich Ship..lies to this day; none having attempted to fish for her.
3.
a. To use artifice to obtain a thing, elicit an opinion, etc. Const. after, for. to fish for a compliment; also absol.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > extract information [verb (intransitive)] > by sounding out
to feel (also take, taste, try) the pulse (also pulses) ofa1400
fish1570
to take soundings1856
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > use guile to elicit or obtain something
anglea1568
fish1570
the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > be vain [verb (intransitive)]
to fish for a compliment1803
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. xi. 1787/1 They both did come but to fish for some thing as might make a shew that my Lord Chauncellor had iustly kept hym in prison.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 76 Crosse thee seas: fish for a kingdoom.
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) vii. 190 To fish..after secrets.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. viii. x. 213 The Half Guinea, for which he had been fishing.
1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale I. 264 I feared he would think I was fishing for a compliment.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 56 At the game of Commerce, losing your life in fishing..for aces.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. xi. 252 I am not fishing; don't compliment me. View more context for this quotation
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iv. 25 The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.
1886 W. H. Mallock Old Order Changes II. 217 I should have fished for you to ask me.
1961 W. Buchan Helen All Alone 183 ‘Don't fish!’ Helen said childishly... ‘But please—what is “fish”?’..‘Fish for compliments—make people say nice things about you.’
b. to fish for oneself: to get all one can; to seek one's own profit exclusively; to rely on one's own efforts.
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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > seek or look after one's own interest [verb (intransitive)]
to shift for oneselfa1513
to lick one's fingers1530
to lick the trencher1542
to serve one's (also one's own) turn1560
to have an eye to (also for) the main chance1584
to look (also have an eye, etc.) to the main chance1592
squint1642
to mind, provide for, be careful of the main chance1645
to fish for oneself1647
to scratch for oneself1850
to play politics1860
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > be independent [verb (intransitive)] > be self-sufficient
to suffice to oneselfc1475
to shift for oneselfa1513
to work out (one's own) salvation1535
reside1610
to stand on (also upon) one's own (two) feet1621
to stand on (also upon) one's own (two) legs1623
shirk1843
to fish for oneself1867
to live on one's hump1909
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 12 This raised the price of the Clergy, and taught them the way to fish for themselves.
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 117 Such men fish most for themselves.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ii. 48 He leaves you to fish for yourself among his miscellaneous stores.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Aa'll gan an fish for mesel.’
c. Harvard College Slang (see quot. 1851): absol. to curry favour, strive to ingratiate oneself with another.
ΚΠ
1774 T. Hutchinson Diary 10 Oct. I. 261 He courts me a good deal, and fishes. I fish in return; and I think neither of us meets with much luck.
1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words Fish. At Harvard College, to seek or gain the good-will of an instructor by flattery,..or officious civilities; to curry favor..Students speak of fishing for parts, appointments, ranks, marks, &c.
II. transitive.
4. figurative and in extended use.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 777 To fisshen hire, he layde out hook and lyne.c1400 Rom. Rose 7494 To fisshen sinful men we go.
a. To catch or try to catch (fish); to take as fish are taken; to collect (corals, pearls) from the bottom of the sea.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)]
fangc900
fishc1374
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. vii. 118 b The Misidan Sea..whereas are fished great quantitie of Pearles.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xvi. 16 I will send for many fishers..and they shal fish them. View more context for this quotation
1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 432 Red Coral..is fished from the beginning of April till the end of July.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 133 Thou hast fished salmon a thousand times.
1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea viii. 336 There is a period every year during which the oyster is not fished.
b. To use as a bait in fishing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > bait a hook > use as bait
fish1922
1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 273/3 Fishing the floating fly with a very fine cast.
1927 Observer 24 July 26/3 Mackerel skin, on a single hook, cast and fished like a fly.
5. transferred.figurative.1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox 10 Sometimes he fished wealth at Court, sometimes in his Government.1886 Edinb. Rev. 163 177 [A service] either fished up from some ancient ‘use’, or invented afresh, like some of the fancy litanies we have heard of.1889 Spectator 23 Nov. 712/2 Out of the vast reservoir of facts..something might be fished up..of interest.absolute.1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 364 Stop, seize and fish, and easy on the davit-guy.
a. To draw or pull out of water, mud, etc.; to discover and bring out of a heap of lumber, a deep place, or the like. Also with out, up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > from a deep place or water
fish1632
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down > and bring to light
to search outc1425
to hunt out1576
unrip?1576
to ferret out1577
to fetch up1608
fish1632
prog1655
rummage1797
rout1814
exhume1819
excavate1840
ferret up1847
unearth1863
fossick?1870
exhumate1881
1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 21 The inhabitants fish out of the bottomes of their lakes a certaine rude matter.
1653 D. Osborne Let. 22 Jan. (1903) 36 Where have you fished him out, for I think he is..little known in the world.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4304/1. 29 Brass Guns, lately fished up.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. I. 224 We..fished up some small Fir-trees, which we had converted into Masts.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 27 My wife fished out a large piece of blue apron, upon the top of her fork.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. i. 29 He..help'd to fish the baron from the Oder.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 219 He was fished by his disciples out of the mud.
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 200 The crystals..are drawn out..or ‘fished’, and allowed to drain.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 64 We had to..fish them out of the bag.
1953 H. Miller Plexus (1963) vi. 212 I fished out the money..and handed it to Sadie's brother.
b. Nautical. to fish the anchor: to draw up the flukes to the gunwale.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor > weigh anchor > raise anchor to ship's side
to fish the anchor1769
to cat and fish1808
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Anchor To fish the anchor, to draw up the flukes upon the ship's side after it is catted.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. iii. 57 They..were fishing the anchor forwards.
c. Coal-mining. (See quot. 1888.)
ΚΠ
1888 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 3) 38 Fish, to catch up a drowned clack by means of a fish-head.
d. To pull (a wire) through a conduit or between floors or walls by means of a stiff looped wire or other device pushed in from the nearer end.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > furnish with wires [verb (transitive)] > pull wire through
fish1896
to loop in1911
1896 R. Robb Electr. Wiring v. 118 Wires are said to be ‘fished’ when they are started in at one end of a concealed space and then, so that they may be pulled through, are felt for, or ‘fished’ for, from the other end, with a hooked wire or other contrivance.
1896 R. Robb Electr. Wiring v. 118 Wire in a flexible conduit may be fished just as the wire alone would be fished.
1914 H. Pender Amer. Handbk. Electr. Engineers 1957 Flexible conduit possesses the advantage over rigid conduit in that it..may be fished between partitions or floors.
1930 J. A. Moyer & J. F. Wostrel Industr. Electr. & Wiring vi. 151 In small houses..the boards can be taken up through the doorways, and the wires fished to the ceiling outlets and switches.
6.
a. To try to catch fish in (a pool, stream, etc.). (Cf. similar use of shoot, etc.) to fish out: to exhaust the fish from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > fish (a pool, etc.)
fishc1440
c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 579 Lyk hym that..fyssheth a bareyn pool.
1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 2 §1 Vnreasonable persones..haue..fished the said pondes..as well by night as by daie.
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler vi. 47 Do but Fish this stream like an Artist.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Poetry 224 She fish'd the brook.
1838 G. P. R. James Robber I. ii. 18 You are quite welcome to fish the stream.
1866 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 5/1 Rye Bay..is more fished perhaps than any piece of sea bottom in the world.
1892 Daily News 12 Apr. 2/1 Whether the Thames is over-fished, or, as the very gloomy prophets say, fished out.
b. transferred. To search through (a receptacle, region, etc.) for (something material or immaterial).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search a place or receptacle thoroughly
asearch1382
searcha1387
ransacka1400
ripea1400
upripe?a1400
riflec1400
ruffle1440
gropea1529
rig1572
rake1618
rummage1621
haul1666
fish1727
call1806
ratch1859
to turn over1859
to go through ——1861
rifle1894
rancel1899
to take apart1920
fine-tooth comb1949
1727 J. Swift & A. Pope Pref. to Miscel. Some have fished the very jakes for papers left there by men of wit.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 81 Oft, as he fish'd her nether realms for wit, The Goddess favour'd him.
1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. iv. 260 Nowhere else are the various sciences so fished for generalizations.
7. Chiefly with out: To get by artifice or patient effort; to ascertain, elicit (a fact or opinion). Const. from, out of. Cf. Latin expiscari.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort
begeteOE
findOE
bewinc1175
getc1175
conquerc1230
reachc1275
procurec1325
makec1350
fishc1374
catchc1384
furneya1400
attainc1405
tillc1440
to pick out1577
to get a gripe ofa1586
secure1743
raise1838
to get one's hooks on (also into)1926
the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
fanda1000
finda1200
kenc1330
lenda1350
agropea1393
contrive1393
to find outc1405
outsearch?a1439
ripec1440
inventc1475
disclose?a1500
fish1531
agnize?1570
discover1585
to grope out1590
out-find1590
expiscate1598
vent1611
to learn out1629
to get to know1643
develop1653
ascertain1794
stag1796
root1866
to get a line on1903
establish1919
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1113 (1162) He that nedis most a cause out fisch.
1531 Instr. from King in T. Elyot Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. lxxii To fish out..what opinion the Emperor is of us.
1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 663 We maye fyshe out of them, whither they were procured or sent hither by any maner of meanes.
1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles B b They..haue..commaunded certaine theire priests..to fish farther cause of accusation.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 7 Sept. (1971) IV. 301 I could not fish from him..what was the matter.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxiii. 271 Hoping by this means to have fished out money either of the king or him.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 2 June 1/2 An admirable Knack of fishing out the Secrets of his Customers.
1770 in J. Doran ‘Mann’ & Manners at Court of Florence (1876) II. ix. 211 To desire a Lady to fish out of me whether I actually intended to go or not.
1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve III. viii. 181 She was trying to fish out..what real business he..had at Hatherton.
III. Other uses.
8. [A new formation on the noun.] transitive. To dress (land) with fish-refuse as a fertilizer. U.S.
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1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 47 In the North parts of New-England, where the fisher-men live, they usually fish their gound with Cods-heads.
1894 E. Eggleston in Cent. Mag. Apr. 851/2 In New England the peculiar mode of fertilizing learned from the Indians introduced a new verb; the first comers ‘fished’ their corn ground.
9. intransitive. Of water: to provide (good or bad) sport for anglers.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish [verb (intransitive)] > provide fishing
fish1898
1898 Daily News 4 Oct. 9/3 The Arun continues to fish badly.
1904 Daily Chron. 13 Jan. 5/2 It is a loch that fishes best in the early part of the year.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 16/4 The Avon was fishing well for roach.
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b. To attempt to clear the bore-hole of an oil well of extraneous obstacles; to use a fishing-tool to seek for objects left or dropped in a bore-hole. Cf. sense 5c below and fishing job n. at fishing n.1 Additions. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > drill for oil or gas [verb (intransitive)] > clear borehole of obstacles
fish1916
society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > drill for oil or gas [verb (transitive)] > look for obstacles in borehole
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1916 Dial. Notes 4 341 Fish.., to try to recover lost tools in a well.
1921 W. H. Jeffery Deep Well Drilling iv. 158 That the driller may be prepared..to fish for lost tools it is essential that he know the exact dimensions of all his tools.
1937 W. F. Cloud Petroleum Production x. 396 Horn sockets are not used frequently when fishing for tubing except in those cases where the tubing to be fished is not very long or heavy.
1974 Scotsman 22 Apr. (Oil Register Suppl.) p. ix/8 When they go ‘fishing’, they will be trying to hook a piece of broken equipment lost in the well hole.
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c. To make use of (equipment, a small boat, etc.) for fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > make use of equipment, etc.
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1913 F. M. Halford Dry-Fly Man's Handbk. i. 18 This shows clearly that the ‘Halford’ rod..is the easier rod to fish.
1970 I. Petite Meander to Alaska v. 43 The younger boy and I own a fishing boat together; he fishes it; I run this place.
1983 Angling Times 3 Aug. 16 When fishing flowing water it is usual to fish a float fixed to the line ‘top and bottom’, or ‘double rubber’ as some anglers call it.
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10. transitive. To take part in (a fishing competition).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > take part in competition
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1887 Fishing Gaz. 30 July 61/2 Good Intent Angling Society. The members will fish a peg-down match at Waltham, on August 7th.
1950 Britannica Bk. of Year 46/1 The All-England championship, fished at Potter Heigham, Norfolk, produced unexpectedly poor results.
1983 Angling Times 28 Sept. 3/3 The world team fished a match against a team from Porthcawl.
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fishv.2
/fɪʃ/, U.S. /fɪʃ/ 1.
a. transitive. To fasten a piece of wood, technically called a fish, upon (a beam, mast, yard, etc.) so as to strengthen it; to mend (a broken spar, etc.) with a fish or fishes. Also to fish together.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with strip or plate
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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 Ready for..fishing or spliceing the Masts or Yards.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 A Iury-mast, which is made with yards, rouftrees, or what they can..fished together.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. i. 295 We were obliged to fish our fore-mast.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 120 Sometimes the pieces that are applied on the sides are made of wood; in this case, it is called fishing the beam.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 83 All hands were now employed..fishing the spritsail yard.
1875 R. F. Martin tr. J. Havrez On Recent Improvem. Winding Machinery 5 Fishing the rods with the wooden fishes.
b. To fasten (a piece of wood) on.
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1711 S. Sewall Diary 10 Sept. (1973) II. 668 Our Axel-tree..broke quite off..Fish'd on a piece in the morning.
2. To join (the rails) with a fish-joint.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > furnish with railway [verb (transitive)] > join the rails
fish1850
1850 C. H. Gregory in Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 9 405 ‘Fishing’ the joints of the rails with two pieces of cast or wrought iron secured by bolts or rivets.
1866 W. H. Barlow in Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 25 409 It would not do..to fish old rails.
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