sea-fishern.

Forms: see sea n. and fisher n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., fisher n.¹

Etymology: < sea n. + fisher n.¹In specific use with reference to the fishing frog (see quot. 1601 at sense 1) after classical Latin piscātrix (Pliny). Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-ˌfisher.

1. One who fishes in the sea. †Also the fishing frog or angler. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)

frogfish1598

frog1601

sea-fisher1601

sea-frog1601

friar1603

toad-fish1612

catfish1620

sea-angler1653

devil fish1666

monkfish1666

nass-fish1666

angler1776

pocket-fish1796

kettle-mawa1798

wide-gab1807

anglerfish1854

round robin1880

dragon-

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > sea-fisher

sea-fisherman1865

sea-angler1893

sea-fisher1893

surfcaster1897

rockhopper1917

salt-chucker1958

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xlii. 261 The fish called the sea Frog, (and of others, the sea Fisher) [L. quae in mari piscatrix vocatur] is as craftie everie whit as the other.

1893 Fishing Gaz. 6/3 An Amateur Sea Fisher's Club.

1898 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ (title) Practical letters to young sea fishers.

†2. An officer of the royal household. Obsolete. Cf. quot. 1526 at sea-fish n.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > other officers of royal or great household

yeoman of the crown1450

sea-fisher1455

solicitor1460

stationary1462

Clerk of the Signet1489

prothonotary1502

Clerk of the Check1541

yeoman of the revels1552

yeoman of the tents1552

Queen's Remembrancer1647

labourer in trust1746

Master of the Buckhounds1753

cock-crower1785

ministerial1818

1455 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) *21 Th' Office of the Catery... William Hampton, See-Fyssher.

1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 143 Sea-Fisher.

Derivatives

sea-fisherman n. one who fishes in the sea.

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