Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, occupation, or sport of catching fish.
- n. A place for catching fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or practice of catching fish.
- n. A fishery; a place or facilities for catching fish: as, there is good fishing there.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or pertaining to fishing.
- n. The activity or sport of catching fish from a body of water.
- n. The business of catching fish in large quantities for sale.
- n. A place for catching fish.
- v. present participle of fish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.
- n. A fishery.
- adj. Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occupation of catching fish for a living
- n. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
Examples
“Mo. for trout my main fishing is on the Mississippi for catfish.”
“There are plenty of campsites and the fishing is awesome.”
“Well, I hope sea fishing is all properly explained now.”
“Deep sea fishing is available there, and (thankfully) no time-share salespeople or hordes of trinket sellers preying on the beachgoers.”
“Deep sea fishing is awesome and exciting, a real physical challenge, but for some reason the Everglades sound better at the moment.”
“When the winds from the east the fishing is the least”
“And what you call fishing for compliments, I call picking a fight.”
The Washington Post: Carolyn Hax: Wife fished for flattery and now gaffs her hubby
“The government is basically accusing defense lawyers of going on what they call a fishing expedition, trying to get them to reveal both their military strategy, as well as their trial strategy.”
“At the outset our fishermen were what you call fishing craftsmen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishing’.
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Against Nature
Inspired by the creepy decadence of Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
katzenklavier, pasilalinic-sympa..., the jewel-encrust..., bird's nest soup, ghost net, bottom trawling, coal industry, cat juggling, rattlesnake roundup, fishing, dancing bear, defoliant and 80 more...
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Pinochle
List of terms used in the card game pinochle, beginning with meld and trick.
meld, trick, widow, widow's hand, talon, kitty, trump, trump suit, bid, contract, run, marriage and 63 more...
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Natural Bait
Things and situations that draw and inspire humans and/or animals, to interact with one another.
pot-luck dinner, water park, lek, spawning season, square dance, county fair, whale rescue, hurricane, flood, pet store, fish market, farmers' market and 87 more...
hernesheir "What shall we do--or go fishing?"
Harold William Thompson - Body, Boots and Britches (1940) p.504 Sep 24, 2009
vanishedone Why does WeirdNet have distinct definitions for fishing as recreation and as a job, but no general definition along the lines of 'catching fish'...? Feb 9, 2009
bilby Cricket jargon - a batsman who tries half-heartedly to hit the ball but does not make contact is said to be fishing. Nov 30, 2007