| 单词 | black-fisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈblack-fisher ˈblack-fisher n. Scottish (now rare) a fisherman who catches salmon just after they have spawned. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for salmon lax-fisher1543 black-fisher1643 salmon-fisherc1650 amphibiia1678 leisterer1843 1643 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1872) IV. 1 The chairges..for repressing of blakfishers and slayers of kepper and smolts in forbiddin tyme. 1794 J. Sinclair et al. Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. xxiii. 294 The black-fishers, provided with spears,..wade up and down upon the shallows, preceded by a great torch... By this light the fish are soon discerned. 1863 W. F. Campbell & J. F. Campbell Life in Normandy II. 55 Black-fisher..is the name given to the poachers who kill salmon when they are out of season. 1908 J. Buchan Some 18th Cent. Byways 228 She sympathised warmly in her husband's tastes, and gipsies and black-fishers were sure of their protection. < as lemmas |
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