Definition of fishing

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Fishing (n.) A fishery.

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Bethabara Wood :: Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian..
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.
Bultow :: Bultow (n.) A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
Stalk-eyed :: Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.
Expiscation :: Expiscation (n.) The act of expiscating; a fishing.
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Spilliard Fishing :: Spillet fishing () Alt. of Spilliard fishin.
Rod :: Rod (n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
Pirl :: Pirl (v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines..
Cog :: Cog (n.) A small fishing boat.
Haaf :: Haaf (n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles..
Water Gavel :: Water gavel () A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water..
Trawlboat :: Trawlboat (n.) A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing..
Gad :: Gad (n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with..
Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl..
Fishing :: Fishing (n.) Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village..
Whiffing :: Whiffing (n.) A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like..
Sea Eagle :: Sea eagle () Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles..
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..
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