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

Fishing :: Fishing (n.) Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village..

Trink :: Trink (n.) A kind of fishing net.

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..

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..

Snood :: Snood (n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.

Sport :: Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked..

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

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

Caravel :: Caravel (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.

Pykar :: Pykar (n.) An ancient English fishing boat.

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

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

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

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..

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

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

Wherry :: Wherry (n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing..

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.

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