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

Fishing :: Fishing (n.) A fishery.

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

Stalk-eyed :: Stalker (n.) A kind of fishing net.

Barque :: Barque (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind..

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

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..

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..

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.

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..

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

Dobber :: Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.

Piscatory :: Piscatory (a.) Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.

Skipper :: Skipper (n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel..

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

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

Well :: Well (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market..

Boulter :: Boulter (n.) A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached..

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

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

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