fishing
noun/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
Etymology From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.
1
The act of catching fish.
- We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
2
Informal The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- This is good news for the fishing industry.
4
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the rent of the fishings1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.1917, The Scots Law Times, volume 2, page 190:
- Synonyms
- piscatology, piscation, piscicide, piscicapture, the gentle craft, fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry, sportfishing
- Derived terms
30 terms
antifishing, bottom-fishing, compliment fishing, cormorant fishing, cyanide fishing, drift fishing, electrofishing, fishing eagle, fishing frog, fishingly, fishing net, fishing owl, Fishing Point, fishing room, fishing-smack, fishing-tube, fishing worm, fly fishing, fly-fishing, gone fishing, gorge fishing, ice fishing, Jonah fishing, line fishing, mucus fishing syndrome, nonfishing, rodfishing, shellfishing, skishing, spearfishing- Related terms
- halieutically, halieutics, piscatology, piscatory, piscatorious, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian, piscatorially