Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.
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- noun fishing A
large fish pound used for thecapture oftuna in theMediterranean , now aforbidden practice in places.
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Again we may read of the periodic migration of the tunnies, of the great net or 'madrague' in which they are captured, and of the watchmen, the θυννοσκοποι {thynnoskopoi}, the 'hooers' of our ancient
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