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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Sea Eagle :: Sea eagle () Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles..

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

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

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)..

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

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

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

Spillet Fishing :: Spiller (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

Trawler :: Trawler (n.) A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.

Off :: Off (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics..

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

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

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

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