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Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl..

Trawlboat :: Trawlboat (n.) A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.

Rod :: Rod (n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.

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

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

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..

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream..

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

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..

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..

Scalloping :: Scalloping (n.) Fishing for scallops.

Casting :: Casting (n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing..

Coble :: Coble (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England..

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

Fishing :: Fishing (n.) The act, practice, or art of one who fishes..

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..

Fishing :: Fishing (n.) A fishery.

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..

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

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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