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

Angler :: Angler (n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc..

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

Newfoundland :: Newfoundland (n.) An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity..

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

Expiscation :: Expiscation (n.) The act of expiscating; a fishing.

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

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

Smack :: Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade..

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..

Dropper :: Dropper (n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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