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Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..

Dogger :: Dogger (n.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch..

Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom..

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

Imp :: Imp (n.) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line..

Ligger :: Ligger (n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a..

Line :: Line (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline..

Lancewood :: Lancewood (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae)..

Haaf :: Haaf (n.) The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles..

Trawl :: Trawl (n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter..

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

Spoon :: Spoon (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait..

Fishery :: Fishery (n.) The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.

Drop :: Drop (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc..

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

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

Seining :: Seining (n.) Fishing with a seine.

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

Whiffing :: Whiffing (n.) A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like..

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