Word Meanings - FISHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.

• Catchpoll
  A bailiff's assistant.
• Fisheries
  of Fishery
• Fishery
  The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
• Practice
  Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
• Fishful
  Abounding with fish.
• Practiced
  of Practice
• Businesses
  of Business
• Catchwater
  A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
• Fishgig
  A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
• Practicer
  One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.
• Business
  That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before p
• Catchweed
  See Cleavers.
• Fishhawk
  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.
• CATCHBASIN
  A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.
• Businesslike
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• Catchweight
  Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
• Fishhook
  A hook for catching fish.
• CATCHCROP
  Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n. Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables. L. H. Bailey.

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