Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of fishing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Fishing; fishery.
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- noun obsolete
fishing ;fishery
Etymologies
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Latin piscatio, from piscari to fish.
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Examples
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A plain angle is the evident inclination, and consequent piscation, of a member for a certain place; or it is the meeting together of two members who are not in the same line of politics.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various
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n., fishing!
July 7, 2008