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Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

Toggery :: Toggery (n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery..

Pirn :: Pirn (n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod..

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland..

Pirl :: Pirl (v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

Piscary :: Piscary (n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

Fishhawk :: Fishhawk (n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard..

Water Gavel :: Water gavel () A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water..

Donax :: Donax (n.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc..

Bultow :: Bultow (n.) A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.

Lurker :: Lurker (n.) A small fishing boat.

Spillikin :: Spilliard fishing () A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing..

Fishing :: Fishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fis.

Netting :: Netting (n.) The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc..

Dragnet :: Dragnet (n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing..

Angling :: Angling (n.) The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.

Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house..

Tackling :: Tackling (n.) Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling..

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