单词 | fish-gig |
释义 | fish-gign. (See quot. 1788.) = fizgig n. 4. ΘΚΠ 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 a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 532/2 These Fishes are taken with..Fishgigs. 1788 A. Falconbridge Acct. Slave Trade 41 The fish-gig..an instrument used for striking fish..consists of several strong barbed points fixed on a pole, about six feet long, loaded at the end with lead. 1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales i. 16 The men fish with a fish-gig. 1866 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 278/2 They were prevented from ascending by what appears to have been an ordinary fish gig. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1642 |
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