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fisherman |
fisherman's bend |
fisherman's knot |
fisherman's lure |
fishery
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| fisheye lens
| fishfly
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fishery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fishery has 1 sense
- fishery(n = noun.artifact) piscary - a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold; Array has particulars: pearl fishery
is a kind of work, workplace
Derived form verb fish2
CIDE DICTIONARY
fishery, n.
- The business or practice of catching fish; fishing. Addison. [1913 Webster]
- A place for catching fish. [1913 Webster]
- The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters. Abbott. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fishery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a place where fish are caught or reared.
2 the occupation or industry of catching or rearing fish.
1 a place where fish are caught or reared.
2 the occupation or industry of catching or rearing fish.
ROGET THESAURUS
fishery
Husbandry
N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.
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